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JUST GLEANINGS 


10-CENT PAY INCREASE TO 
FOUR MONTH TRAINEES 


National defence headquarters at 
Ottawa have announced than an in- 
crease of 10 cents a day in pay of re- 
serve recruits training under the four- 
month compulsory plan will be put in 
force, bringing the sum to $1.30 a day, 
the same as privates in the Canadian 
Active Army service, 

Dependant allowances will also be in 
force, although this will be mainly to 
mothers or others in support of the 21- 
year-old class of single recruits, 


—_—_————— 


FEDERAL SHADE OF RELIEF 
TO BE BORNE BY PROVINCE 


According to an announcement by 
Hon, W.W. Cross, Alberta minister of 
health and relief, the Alberta govern- 
ment hag decided to take over the 40 
percent of the provincial direct relief 
costs now contributed by the feder:! 
government which will be discont':ued 
March 31. 

This will mean that the province 
will pay 80 per cent of relief costs 
and municipalities the same as before 
—20 per cent, Cost to the province 
was estimated at $800,000 in the next 
year, 

nth 


THE HEIGHT OF PATRIOTISM 


“I have been saving this up to di- 
vorce my husband, but I think I can 
stick him better than I can stick Hit- 
ler,” says a woman giving money to 
the Edinburgh War Savings Fund. 
Are you making such a supreme sacri- 
fice? Think it over! 


— tir 


NEW CORVETTES NAMED 
FOR FIVE ALBERTA TOWNS 


OTTAWA—Names of 5 Alberta 
towns and cities have been chosen for 
source of the 54 corvettes of the Royal 
Canadian Navy being built in the Do- 
minion under the wartime ship con- 
struction program, 

A list of the names for Corvettes 
showed the following: Dunvegan, We- 
taskiwin, Camrose, Lethbridge, Drum- 
heller, 


Mr. Merchant: If your stock of 
counter sales books is getting low 
why not order a new supply now be- 
fore prices advanee? Delivery can be 
made at any date up to 30 days and 
the placing of your order now will 
protect you against a price rise, You 
save nothing by ordering through a 

travelling salesman—our™ prices ure 
positively the lowest and express 
charges are. prepaid.—The Carbon 
Chronicle. 


“What are you doing?” yelled the 
foreman, 

“I’m just sharpening a pencil,” call- 
ed back the bricklayer, 

“Well don’t let anybody see you. 
That’s a carpenter’s job, you know.” 


A member of a Ladies’ Aid Society 
in a smal] town went to the bank to 
deposit, as she told the banker “some | 
aid money.” 

Unfortunately the banker thought 
she said “egg money,” and replied: 
“Remarkable, isn’t it, how well the old 
hens are doing these days?” 

Then he couldn’t understand why | 
the woman gathered up her pass book 
and hurried from the bank! 


he Cafhon Chronicle 


VOLUME 20; NUMBER 5 


CARBON, ALBERTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941 


$2.00 A YBAR; 69 A COPY 


14TH ARMY TANK 
BATTALION IN NEED OF 
TRUCK AND TRACTOR MEN 


Major C.E. Page in 
Carbon on Monday 


Major C.E, Page of the 14th Army 
Tank Battalion (Calgary Regiment) 
was in Carbon Monday and called at 
The Chronicle office in the hopes that 
we may be of assistance in bringing 
to the notice of prospective recruits 
the openings in the regiment for 
young men who can handle tractors 
and trucks, Those with experience can 
join up at materially increased pay 
over regular army privates, and the 
possibilities of advancement are great 
for experienced men. 

The Army Tank Battalion consists 
of 580 men of all ranks, and has 147 
vehicles, which requires many men, At 
present the 14th Army Tank Battalion 
consists has about 275 men, so there 
is still plenty of opening for recruits, 
although the ranks are rapidly being 
filled, 

Major Page stated that if ten or 
more local young men wished to join 
his Battalion a Medical Poard would 
come to Carbon to give them neces. 
sary examinations, Otherwise the re- 
cruits will have to go to Calgary where 
they will be given immediate examina- 
tion when they make application to 
Lieut.-Col. W.K, Jull, Commanding Of- 
ficer of Calgary Tank Regiment. 

OOO 


THE WORLD OF WHEAT 
REVIEWED WEEKLY BY 
MAJOR H.G.L. STRANGE 


Recently I had the privilege of visit- 
ing the States of Oklahoma, Texas, 
Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa and Minne- 
sota, looking into agricultural matters. 
In each of these States ™ found the 
Governments and Colleges of Agricul- 
ture, the Grain Companies, the Millers 
und Bakers, all concerning themselves 
with the improvement of the quality 
of their wheat. 

The Canadian “Crop Testing Plan” 
I found had been adopted as the basis 
of the Crop Improvement rojects, The 
American people are proposing to li- 
cense by law the varieties that farm- 
ers can grow, They are growing and 
testing samples of the farmers crops 
to determine their trueness-to-variety 
and are making good seed available 
at cost to those farmers who need it. 

The work is being actively pursued, 
and these States, each of which ex- 
ports wheat in normal times, are de- 
termined that the quality of their 
wheat shall be acceptable. to World’s 
buyers when peacetime comes. 

The activity of our Amevyican friends 
makes it all the more necessary, it 
seems to me, why we in Canada should 
i{ possible, even increase the efforts 
we are now making to improve the 
cuality of our own Prairie wheat; for 
after the coming of peace our wheat 
producers wil] certainly have to face 
some keen competition on the markets 
of the World, 


DRY GOODS 


ENGLISH TOWELS, 17x34, each ... 
FANCY RAYON BEDSPREADS 
DUNKIRK WOOL (one ball sufficient for one 


..+- 290€ 
eee 2,85 


a a OO 


THE FARMERS’ EXCHANGE 
RED AND WHITE STORE 


( pair of socks) per ball................ 75e 
| FACE CLOTHS, 10x12 size, each ........... 5@ 
; FANCY VANITY SETS ................. 496 
/ @ oe 

| YOU’LL DO BETTER AT 

(= 


It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright, 


31ST REXALL BIRTHDAY SALE 


Feature Values and Special Prices Effective only until March 10th 
3 regular 90c pkgs, Puretest Halibut Liver Oil Capsules, all for $2.00 
Attractive Drinking Glasg and 13-0z, tin Effervescent F 


Saline, both for 


200 Sheets Lad: 


Nose and Throat Relief, Both 


See Our Circular for Further Outstanding Savings 


FREEZER-FRESH ICE CREAM, 


McKIBBIN’S DRUG STORE 


A.F. McKIBBIN, Phm, B., Prescription Specialist, CARBON, Alta. 


Dainty Cleansing Tissues and 50c Rexall 


for 


(0\/0\./0\i/0\"/0\/0\:/0\ (0. (0. (0\./0\:/e\ eX". 


per pint 


MORE ROMAN 


RUINS— This Fiat fighter was one of the thirteen Italian planes destroyed by British Air Force 


fighters, when the Italians attempted their first air reid against Britain, Not a single bomb was dropped on Bri- 


tish soil, 


RED CROSS SOCIETY NO 


The parcels of food for British pris- 
oners of war in Germany which the 
Canadian Red Cross is shipping over- 
seas, will soon be increased from ten 
thousand a week to 20,000, The British 
Red Cross has requested the Society 
in Canada to double its shipments, To 
accomplish this the Red Cross in Mon. 
treal is preparing to pack 10,000 par- 
cels a week to keep pace with Tor- 
onto’s figure. 

The first allotment of 8,000 parcels, 
despatched last month, has reached 
Lisbon safely according to a cable re- 
ceived from the International Red 
Cross representative there, These will 
be forwarded immediately to Geneva 
via Marceilles for distribution in Ger- 
man prison camps. The number of 
parcels packed in Toronto to date to- 
tals 48,690 and this figure is being in- 
creased at a rate of 2,000 a day, 


DUTIES OF CURLERS 


Duties of the various members of a 
curling rink are outlined below, These 
are published so that members will 
know just what their duties are when 
they tie up with some of the skips of 
the local club. 


The Lead—A Lowly Person—This is 
a very lowly person who throws the 
first pair of rocks, He is supposed to 
thank the Deity once a day in his 
prayers that he even exists, let alone 
being allowed to play at bonspiel 
time, He always addresses the skip as 
“Sir” and the third man as “Mr.” This 
lead person is expected to see that the 
four pairs of rocks belonging to his 
rink are on the ice and cleaned five 
minutes before the game starts, He 
must do no less than 75 ver cent of 
the sweeping; he is expected to keep 
the skip fully supplied with cigarettes. 
His curling must be perfect or he is 
blamed for the loss of the games if 
his rink suffers defeat, He may tell 
the second man what he thinks about 
the skip, but no one else, After many 
years of curling he becomes a skip if 
he survives the sarcasm of his asso- 
ciates, 

The Second Player—‘Mere Man”— 
This person is but a degree removed 
from the lead, He is expected to do 
15 per cent of the sweeping. He also, 
as the lead, is expected to keep the 
skip supplied with cigarettes and the 
third man with matches, He must on 
all occasions get the rock he is to pick 
out, otherwise he is blamed for loss 
of games, 

The Third Player—A Gentleman— 
This gentleman is in a class by him- 
self always, He could skip the rink 
in fact he always could skip it far 
better than the skip doing the job 
now, He assumes an air of superiority 
over all leads and seconds and of mere 
condescension to his skip, He does the 
remaining 10 per cent of the sweep- 
ing. He holds the broom for the skip 
to shoot, and invariably tells the skip 
that he should have tried the shot he 
the third man, had chosen, and not 
the one he, the skip, had just missed 


The Skip—The Ideal Curler—He is 
a gentlemanly sportsman who gets up 
the rink, often sacrificing valuable 
time to the interest and entertainment 
of three other curlers who wish to play 
in the bonspiel, He does none of th 
sweeping, he merely holds the broom 
and his own temper while the rest of 
the rink miss the one and strain the 
other, He has to knock out shots wher 
he can only see an eye brow, He must 
draw to the button, making it by just 
eighths of inches, He must play a run. 
ner shot and a draw the next. He must 
take out four rocks with one shot and 
then lay on the button and generally 
make himself useful, knowing that if 
he loses he alone bears the blame, He 
must have the patience of Job and thc 
aggressiveness of Napoleon, and must 
never complain or he will be classed 
as a poor sport, 


AMATEUR PROGRAM AND 
DANCE, FRIDAY, MARCH 14 


The Carbon Junior Red Cross will 
sponsor an amateur program and 
dance to be’ held in the Farmers Ex- 
change hall on Friday, March 14th, 
the program to commence at 8 p.m. 

First and second prizes in the ama- 
teur contest will be $5 War Savings 
Certificates, and the third and fourth 
prizes will be $2 in cash each, 

All entries in the amateur contest 
must be sent to Miss Marmie Ritchie 
before March 13, 

Following the program a dance will 
be held with Velvetone orchestra pro- 
viding the music, 


CARBON AND DISTRICT 
:: NEWS NOTES :: 
Mr. and Mrs, Wilfred Poxon of East 


Coulee, who spent last week in Car- 
bon, returned to their home Friday. 


Rev. Hinchey fell last week and in- 
jured his arm, thus keeping him out 
of the bonspiel, 


Mrs. M.J, Elliott spent a few days 
in Calgary last week. 


Miss Isabe] Summers spent Sunday 
at her home in Craigmyle. 


A regular blizzard came up Mon- 
day, but fortunately the wind abated 
late in the afternoon, About six inches 
of new snow has fallen this week and 
Sunday night the temperature dropped 
to 20 degrees below zero. 


Mrs, J.H, Oliphant spent the week 
end in Calgary and returned home on 
Sunday evening, 


Walter Johnston of McKibbin Drug 
Store staff, left Sunday for his home 
in Calgary and will return to school 
to complete his Latin course, 


Francis Colvin, one-time resident of 
Carbon, but lately of Newcastle, pass- 
ed away last Wednesday night in the 
Drumheller hospital. 


Ten C.G.I.T, members attended the 
conference in Calgary last Friday, Sat- 
urday and Sunday, Local girls attend- 
ing were Mary Ward, Olga Kapaniuk, 
Lucia Kalapaca, Helen Madgesi, Mar- 
garet Cameron,*Annie Shyjka, Alma 
White, Jolayne Milligan and Helen 
Gablehouse, 


Miss Iris Laing arrived Sunday 
from Kelowna, B.C, and spent the day 
visiting with Mr, and Mrs, Ross Thor- 
burn, Iris was bridesmaid at the wed- 
ding of her sister, Joyce, in Calgary 
Saturday, 


We understand that Toby Webb is 
ill with pneumonia. in the Drumheller 
hospital, 


Mrs, Jane Anderson left last week 
to visit with her daughter at Mirror. 


Thos, B. Laing returned 
from Calgary, where he attended the 
wedding of his daughter, Joyce, 


There will be a special service for 
Carbon curlers in the United Church 
on Sunday morning, March 2nd. 


Fire early Tuesday morning destroy- 
ed the three-hoomed house on the “is- 
land” belonging to the Stroski family, 
The firse apperently started from an 


overheated stove and had gained con- | 
siderable headway before noticed, and , 
the building and contents were a total | 


loss, Mrs, Stroski and child escaped 
from the burning building through a 
window, 


Vernon Alf is sick with Corea, and | 


will not be able to attend school for 
a month or two, 


Sunday | 


RED CROSS GETS LETTER OF 
THANKS FROM JACK EVANS 


The following letter of ‘appreciation 
was received this week by the Carbon 
Red Cross from John Evans, of the R. 
C.N, now serving in England: 

H.M.C.S, Ottawa, 
C./o, G.P.O, London 
January 26, 1941 

Dear Sir: (or is it madam?) I must 
plead ignorance this time of even the 
knowledge of an existing branch of 
the Red Cross in Carbon. 

You can imagine my surprise there. 
fore, to receive your parcel of cookies. 
I can only start to express my appre- 
ciation and thanks for such gifts and 
really a treat—a rare delicacy over 
here, and all the more appreciated be- 
cause they come from home, | 

In closing let me thank you again 
and wish you every success with your 
good work, 

Yours sincerely, 
JOHN EVANS 


Dr, Wm, Kuhn of Chicago, general 
secretary of German Baptist church 
of North America, was a visitor in 
Carbon last week, the guest of Rev. 
and Mrs, F. Alf, Sunday morning Dr. 
Kuhn preached at the Zion Baptist 
church, 


A disasterous fire of unknown ori- 
gin broke out on the Karl Schuler 
farm Monday noon, burning his valu- 
able pump house to the ground, By 
the prompt action of the one-man 
hucket brigade the wooden water tank 
was saved from complete destruction. 
We understand no insurance was ¢2r- 
ried on either, Sabotage was suspect- 
ed.—Contributed, 


Orr 


FIRST MEETING OF THE 
1941 SCHOOL BOARD 


The first meeting of the 1941 Board 
of the Carbon School District was held 
on Friday evening, February 21st with 
trustees Flaws, Thorburn and McKib- 
bin present, 

Jas, Flaws was elected Chairman of 
the Board for 1941, and Alex Reid 
was elected secretary, 


H. WOODS WINS ONTARIO 
LAUNDRY EVENT AND W. 
J). NESBITT THE PEERLESS 


Final of Blue Ribbon 
Will Decide Winners 


The annua] bonspiel of the Carbon 
Curling Club was completed on Satur- 
day with the exception of the final in 
the Blue Ribbon event, bringing to a 
close the most successful ‘spiel in the 
history of the local club, 24 rinks were 
entered, and play continued from 7:00 
o'clock in the morning till long after 
midnight for four days before the fi- 
nals were reached in the three compe- 
titions. 

In the Ontario Laundry event H. 
Woods took first, with Nesbitt of 


Swalwell second, Gimbel third, and 
Downey fourth. 
In the Peerless Carbon Collierics 


event, Bert Nesbitt of Swalwell wos 
first, McKibbin second, Leiske third, 
and Wolff of Swalwell fourth. 

The Blue Ribbon final game between 
the Len Poxon and Alec Poxon rinks 
was to have been played Wednesday 
to decide the winners in this event. 

The Bert Nesbitt rink of Swalwell 
won the grand aggregate, having won 
the most games during the bonspiel. 

During the week the Carbon Ladies’ 
Aid served lunches and we understand 
that nearly $150 was cleared by them 
during the four days. 

Following is a list of the games 
played in the various events: 

ONTARIO LAUNDRY 

Priebe 9, Leiske 8; A. Poxon 12, 
Wolff 8; L. Poxon 7, Nesbitt 11; Akre 
9; F, Tricker 14; McKibbin 12, Gran- 
berg 9; Wright 7, Powers 9; Garrett 
11, Bob Tricker 10; Woods 12, Barker 
3; Skerry 12, Fred Poxon 5; ‘Downey 
10, Olson 4; Leitch 7, Cannings 11; 
Priebe 11, A, Poxon 10; Nesbitt 11, F. 
Tricker 5; McKibbin 18, Powers 8; 
Garrett 5. ’Gimbel 18; Priehe 3, Nesbitt 
18; McKibbin 12, Gimbel 15; Woods 
13, Skerry 10; Downey 13, Cannings 7; 
Nesbitt 11, Gimbel 4; Woods 10, Dow- 
ney 9; Nesbitt 7, Woods 9. 

PEERLESS EVENT 

Frank Tricker 9, Wright 10; Leiske 
18; Skerry 10; Granberg .2, L. Poxon 
13; Fred Poxon 5, Gimbel 13; Barker 
if Leitch 11; Olson 8, Woods 9; Akre 
7, Powers il; Nesbitt 13, Pricbe 7; 
Wright 4, Leiske 13; L, Poxon 15, 
Gimbel 6; Leitch 8, Woods 7; Powers 
8, Nesbitt 13; Wolff 12, Downey 4; 
Wyndham 12, Cannings 13; McKib- 
bin 17, Bob Tricker 7; Garrett 7, A. 
Poxon 14; Leiske 12, L, Poxon 8; Nes- 
bitt 14, Leitch 9; Wolff 16, Cannings 
15; McKibbin 11, A, Poxon 10; Leiske 
12, Nesbitt 18; Wolff 4, McKibbin 13; 
Nesbitt 14, McKibbin 4, 

BLUE RIBBON EVENT 

L. Poxon 16, Garrett 5; F, Poxon 
10, Wright 9; Leitch 8, Cannings 6; 
Powers 12, Granberg 6; Priebe 8, A. 
Poxon 12; Wyndham 8, Akre 7; Bark- 
er 8, Bob Tricker 12; L, Poxon 14, F. 
Poxon 11; Leitch 8, Powers 9; Skerry 
5, A. Poxon 10; L, Poxon 14, Powers 
7; A. Poxon 14, Wyndham 4, 


RED CROSS DONATIONS 


The following donations to the Car- 
bon branch of the Red Cross Society 


Passing accounts for payment was| are acknowledged: 


the only other business transacted at 
the meeting, 


3.50 
4.75 


J. Kopulos, Three Hills 
E.D, McKeller, Hesketh, . 


———— 


A BRITISH-MADE PRODUCT 


ELIMINATES SMUT AND 


OTHER SEED DISEASES 


Substantially increases the seedling’s resistance to frost and drouth, 
Ensures a substantial addition to the normal crop, 


USE %,-OUNCE PER 
Treat Your Wheat Now and 
1-LB, TIN .... $1.05 


5-LB, TIN .... 


BUSHEL OF GRAIN 
Avoid Delay at Seeding Time 
$4.15 10-LB, TIN ..., $8.00 


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CARBON’S LEAD 
WM, F. WM. F. ROBS, Manager 


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FOUR REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE 


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For a smooth, powerful motor under the hood. 


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So that you will save 


on both gas and oil, 
repair bills later on. 


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~~ 


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CARBON, ALTA. 


“It DOES taste good in a pipel” 


HANDY SEAL-TIGHT POUCH—15¢ 
Yo-LB. “LOK-TOP” TIN — 65¢ 
also packed in Pocket Tins 


Picobac 


Equitability Of Sacrifice 


Never in Canadian history have the people of this country been so 
united in the prosecution of a national objective as they are at the présent 
time in their determination to bend all their resources to the winning of 
the current war; never before have they been so willing to make great 
Sacrifices in & common cause as they are at the present time. 

When the issues at stake in this conflict between the democracies tnd 
totalitarians are given the fullest consideration and their due weight, the 
desirability, nay more than that, the utmost necessity, for complete accord 
and unity from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is apparent if our heritage of 
liberty and freedom is to be conserved, 

The torce of the Canadian war effort is going to be determined by the 
extent to which the present high morale of the people is maintained. The 
maintenance of a high degree of morale, so essential to give full effect to 
the blows we deliver at the enemy, will be decided by the extent to which 
we are prepared to make sacrifices and the extent to which we are willing 
to equalize the burden of these sacrifices as between the east and the west, 
as between the producer and the consumer, as between one industry and 
another 

Apart 


from the contribution of man power to the armed forces for 
services overseas on a voluntary basis and for home defence as a compul- 
sory measure, the Canadian war effort is confined to the provision of the 
sinews of warfare in the form of fighting craft, arms and munitions and 
foodstuffs to maintain British and our own fighting forces and their civilian 
populations. 

* * 


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Our Special Contribution 


For various reasons which need not be entered into here but which 
are well known, the task of creating fighting craft and the manufacture of 
munitions and arms is of necessity largely confined to the industrial east 
and in a lesser degree to British Columbia. The war products which are 
being turned out in the factories and workshops and shipyards of eastern 
Canada are required for immediate use. Hence they are immediately con- 
vertible into cash which has already brought and is continuing to bring 
to the east a high degree of prosperity and an increasing purchasing power 
to the people of the east. / | 

For various reasons, and equally well known, the war task of the prairie | 
provinces is confined to the provision of foodstuffs for the fighting men and 
the civilian populations. For much of this Western agricultural produce, and 
particularly wheat, there is no immediate export demand and may not be 
for some considerable time. Hence, the prairie provinces, while making 
great sacrifices in the national effort are not only not sharing in the pros- 
perity which the east enjoys, but are sustaining losses occasioned by con- 
tinued production of commodities, much of which must be stored for future | 
use and for some of which there is only a limited demand in a restricted 
area and of doing so in the face of rising costs of production. | 

~ + * * 
Disparity Increasing 

The situation was fairly summarized in a brief recently submitted to| 
the federal government by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture in the) 
following words: | 

“Victory cannot be achieved without sacrifices. All classes of our peo- 
ple will be called upon to make sacrifices and the agricultural industry is | 
ready and willing to bear its full share of the heavy load which Canada has 
shouldered. It is vital, from consideration of national unity, that no one} 
class shall be called upon to carry an undue share of the burden and that | 
there should be equality of sacrifice by all classes, 

“As the tempo of industrial production is speeded up to meet the urgent 
need for munitions and war supplies, there is a grave danger that the pres- | 
ent disparity between agricultural and industrial income will increase. More} 
than three million Canadians now live on farms and engage in the produc- | 
tion of food supplies. Another two million live in rural areas directly de-| 
pendent the their livelihood. But, while there has 
been a tremendous rise in the national income, agriculture’s share of the 
national income continues to decline, in the face of steadily increasing cost | 
of production.” 

The brief refers to the necessity of continued agricultural production 
as an important factor in winning the war and to supply the needs of hun- 
gry countries after the war and points out the need, if agriculture is to 
continue to play its full share in this effort, of the following two policies: 

“1, There must be an immediate and substantial increase of farm in- 
relation to the national income; and 
A properly co-ordinated national policy for agriculture, including 
as well as production, must be instituted.” 

* * *. . 

A United Voice 
never in the history of the country has Canadian agriculture 
united in its representations for removal of inequalities as_ evi- 
denced in brief of the of Agriculture, which 
co-operative and producer organizations of every province of the} 
including British Columbia and the Maritimes, 

Equalization of the burden of war sacrifices as between all the entities 
which make up the nation is not an unreasonable request and when agri- 
culture speaks with such unanimous voice, as it has now done, it would 
that in the interests of continued national unity, if for no other rea- 
son, that the general principles in the brief, if not all the specific requests, 
will be given due weight by the government and particularly by the indus- 
The measure which the industrial east is willing to accord to4 


farm income for 


on 


come in 


marketing 


Perhaps 
been so 
Federation 


the Canadian 


speaks for 


Dominion 


appear 


trial east 


agriculture’s suggestions will largely determine the extent to which the 
government can go in a request for a more equitable distribution of the 
rifices occasioned by the war. 
o ————— — 
a | 
A cloud of fiery gas which flared| 


Secret Is Guarded 


up 150,000 miles from the sun’s sur-| 


face, 93.700 miles higher than any British Chemists Discover New 
previously observed, has been ae, Method Of Making Gasoline 
scribed and photographed Substitute 
oeeeecesneeeaeneerennenen — | The London Daily Mail said that 
Garrote are Gaclated to he tha pre- | three 3ritish chemists have discover- 
vent ethe” hacilll: which “aauses ed a new and better method of mak- 
old age Now watch the lowly suc- ing methane, a substitute for gaso- 
culent take first rank in the vegetable line, from coal gas 
avid hitherte held by the naga. | The Mail said it was long known 


| that methane is present in coal gas, 
| but the new production method is 
| known only to Britain. The processes 
and other details a closely- 
| guarded secret, the newspaper said, 


ASTHMA 
BRONCHITIS 


AND TOUGH, HANG-ON 


COUGHS ‘: COLDS 
YIELD FASTER TO 


BUCKLEY | 


are 


| Birds sleep in a.great many ways. 
| Some sleep on the water, some stand- 

ing up, and some sleep hanging by 
| their claws, using their stiff tails as 
a brace. 


Garlic 
hours 


scents the breath for 72 


2399 


MIxX TURE 


| In A Difficult Position 


| Fire's Present Attitude Will Mean 
Loss Of Séf-Respect 
| Without British trade in peace- 
| time Eire could not survive; without 
| British protection to-day she would 
be as vulnerable to attack as Den- 
mark; and ,in the event of a German 
invasion by sea or air, without Bri- 
| tish aid she would be doomed in a 
| week, Mr. de Valera knows all this 
as well as anyone, and no one could 
take the slightest objection to his 
stand had he not, with the utmost 
care, concealed the above facts for 
domestic reasons. Add to this the 
hypocritical pretence that this is a 
war to whose issues Eire is indiffer- 
ent, and the incontestable fact that 
her neutrality is helpful to Germany, 
and it is plain that, however Bire 
may solve her present dilemma, she | 
will find it difficult to salvage her 
self-respect.—BeKast Telegraph. 


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C.P.R. Liner Montrose vice Dept., is a 
The armed British merchant valuable Booklet 


entitled 52 Baking 
Secrets”. Write for 
your FREE copy now enclosing a Crown 
Syrup label, to Canada Starch Home Service, 
Dept. F3 Box 129, Montreal. 


SELECTED RECIPES 


JELL-O CHIFFON PIE 


cruiser Forfar which the British ad- 
miralty announced had been tor- | 
pedoed and sunk last December was 
identified by New York marine circles | 
as the 16,403-ton Canadian Pacific | 
passenger liner Montrose. 

In announcing the loss of the For- | 
far the admiralty had withheld - her 
tonnage or her former name, | 


Marine circles disclosing her | i egg yolks, slightly beaten 
identity said there had been a heavy) J oti pm, key 
loss of life when the liner plunged to] 1 package Lemon or Lime Jell-O 
the bottom of the North Atlantic. | 3 tablespoons lemon juice 

The Montrose, which ran regularly) 1% teaspoons grated lemon rind 
between Canada and Great Britain; sae witien. 
before the war, was built in Glasgow | 1 baked 9-inch pie shell 


in 1922. She was 548 feet long and 
was placed under command of Capt. 
N. A. C. Hardy after her conversion 
into an armed cruiser. 


Combine egg yolks and 4 table- 
spoons sugar in top of double boiler, 
mixing well. Add water and blend. 
Cook over hot water until mixture! 
coats spoon, stirring constantly. Re- 
move from fire. Add Jell-O and stir 
until dissolved. Add lemon juice and 
|rind. Chill until slightly thickened. 
Add salt to egg whites and beat un- 
til foamy; then add remaining 4 
tablespoons sugar gradually, and} 
continue beating until stiff. Fold! 
| Slightly thickened Jell-O into egg 
| whites. Pour into cold baked pie} 
| Shell, Chill until firm. Serve plain 
or garnish with border of whipped 
cream, 


HOUSEFROCK HAS NOVELTY 
YOKES 


By Anne Adams 


BAKED CHEESE FONDUE 


1 cup scalded milk 
22 Christie's Reception Wafers 
%4 lb. cheese, flaked 
tablespoon butter 
1% teaspoon salt 
egg yolks, beaten 
egg whites 
| Pour scalded milk over crumbled 
|Reception wafers, flaked cheese, but- 
}ter and salt. Stir this mixture into 
| beaten egg yolks, fold in stiffly beat- 
jen egg whites. Pour into buttered 
baking dish and bake in a moderate | 
oven (375 degrees F.) 20-25 minutes. 
Six portions. Preparation: 12 min- 
utes. 


* 


Norwegians Must Register 


The Nazi-dominated Quisling gov- 
ernment in Norway has ordered all 
Norwegians more than 15 years of 
age to register, despatches from 
|German-held Oslo reported, as a 
|means of strengthening its control, 
particularly in western Norway, 
| where street fighting has been re- 
ported recently. 


The age limit for British pilot re- 
cruits has been raised from 28 to 31 
years. 


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APPLEFORD PA 


ry Pensioners Help War Cause 


Contributions, Great And Small, Com- 
ing From Many Quarters 

Nine more veterans of the Great 
War have added their names tc the 
growing list of pensioners making 
monthly free-will contributions to 
Canada’s War Fund. The contribu- 
tions range from $5.00 to $37.50 per 
month. One pensioner, resident in 
Toledo, Ohio, returns his total pen- 
sion received since August 1940, 

Students in schools, small com- 
munities, societies and ¢lubs all join 
in offering to the war fund. An In- 
dian, away in North West Territory, 
sends $10. From Almirante, Panama, 
come $500 in American funds. In- 
stead of making Christmas gifts, 
pupils in Room 28, Herchmer school, 
Regina, forward $2.25. Three doctors 
send fees from medical examinations. 
A resident of Dugald, Manitoba, con- 
tributes a five dollar gold piece, gift 
of a golden wedding anniversary. A 
schoolboy in Great Falls, Manitoba, 
gives a dollar won at school for re- 
citing. An anonymous gift of $3,000 
represents “profits made by a com- 
pany.” 

Wellwishers across the Dominion 
and scattered over the United States 
add their contributions. 


Likely To Be Popular 


Various Colored Yashmaks Will Be 
Used In London Shelters 

London stores are featuring yash- 
maks—yes, yashmaks. 

Yashmaks, as old as the reticence 
of Mohammedan women to show 
their faces in public, have been 
beautified and are being made in 
various colors. Yellow, pink and 
green have top billing. 

Ald. Charles Key, chairman of 
London air-raid shelters, said 90,000 


ter use. They are primarily designed 
to snuff sneezes and prevent infec- 
tion. 

Fashion designers say they'll be! 
popular. If a girl has nice eyes the | 
veils will add “allure,” they said, and, 


| on the other hand if her face is not 
| So nice, a yashmak will help. 


The veils are designed to fit over 
the nose and are'tied at the back of 
the head. 


ow Use 


Improved 
Vicks Way 


To Relieve Misery of Colds 


Mothers everywhere are discov- 
ering how easy it is to relieve 
misery of colds with a “VapoRub 
Massage”—relieve coughing, muse 
cular soreness or tightness. 


With this more tho: h treat- 


ment, the poultice-and-vapor 
action of Vicks VapoRub more 
effectively irritated air 


passages with soothing medicinal 
vapors... STIMULATES chest and 
back like a warmi ultice or 
plaster... STARTS misery 
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as well as throat and chest — 
spread a thick layer on chest, 
cover with a warmed cloth. BE 
SURE to use genuine, time-tested 
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Persecution Of Poles 


Russia Has Moved Thousands Into 
Infertile Areas Of Siberia 

More than 100,000 Poles from Rus- 
sian-occupied parts of Poland have 
been moved into infertile parts of Si- 
beria where they live in vermin-in- 
fested hovels, Victor Podoski, consul- 
general for Poland in Canada, said 
on his arrival in Toronto. 

Of German-occupied Poland he 
said: 

“It is definitely proved that 200,- 
000-men and women are actually in 
concentration camps, 100,000 more 
are in prisons, and 2,000,000 are util- 
ized by the Germans as forced labor.” 


How It Works 

The movement of the core of the 
earth, which some scientists believe 
to be fluid, resembles “the motion of 
a bowlful of jelly when you rock the 
bowl a little bit, but quite fast,” 
David Rittenhouse Inglis, of Johns 
Hopkins University told the Ameri- 
can Physical Society. 


You may not be able to join the 


There are approximately 35,000,000 | armed forces, but you fight with your 
telephones in use in the world to-day. | dollars. Buy War Certificates. 


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New Milling Process To 


Produce Flour Containing 


All The Nece 


Proposals to fortify white flour by 
adding thiamin to increase the vita- 
min B-1 content met opposition 
from the Canadian council on nutri- 
tion and its advisory committee to 
the Dominion council of health. 

At a meeting held in December 
these bodies discussed the whole situ- 
ation, officials said, ‘and were of the 
opinion that no such policy of rein- 
forcing flour should be countenanced 
in this country.” 

“They are of the opinion,” one 
Official said, “that all of the essential 
helpful ingredients of whole wheat 
can now be milled into a white flour 
that will bake a white loaf contain- 
ing, in the required quantities, vita- 
mins and other nutritional necessi- 
ties.” 

Those who support fortifying flour 
by adding thiamin have contended 
that the modern methods of milling 
take out of the flour the “vitamin B 
complex” when the germ and husks 
of wheat are removed. Accordingly, 
since most people insist on white flour 
instead of whole wheat flour these 
people are not getting sufficient of 
such vitamins in their diet. By add- 
ing thiamin at least one part of the 
vitamin B complex, namely B-1, is 
added. 

The position taken by the nutrition 
council, its spokesman said, was that 
thiamin added only one of the eight 
members of vitamin B group and 
that by a new process of milling 
wheat, leaving in the germ and some 
of the outerskin, sufficient vitamins 
of the B group could be retained in 
the flour when hard rust resistant 
wheat is used. 

One of the common difficulties to 
retaining the germ in flour is that it 
causes fermentation when flour is 
held. for any considerable time. Dr. 
L. H. Newman, Dominion cerealist 
who is inclined to favor fortifying 
flour with thiamin is conducting tests 
to ascertain to what extent by new 
milling methods the germ may be) 
left in the flour and yet have the 
product keep long enough for the 
customary processes of marketing. 

He said that until this research had 
been farther advanced he could not 
say how successful it would be. 

The danger of fermentation is 
avoidéd in whole wheat flour because 


since the demand is small the flour} 


is ground only in sufficient quantities 
that it will be baked soon after 
grinding. 


The department of pensions and) sypmarines the tiny corvettes, fitted | 


national health, however, seems con-| 
fident that the new milling process 
will overcome germination difficul- 
ties. An official said that last Oct. 
3 it informed the British ministry of 
health “that we had been able to pro- 
duce from rust resisting strains of 
Canadian western wheat, of which 
there was an ample quantity avail- 
able, a white flour producing a light) 
creamy-white loaf containing all of 
the vitamin or other active principles 
in sufficient quantity to meet nutri-| 
tion requirements without re-addition 
of any synthetic agents and a flour! 
_ which would not spoil within a rea- 
sonable period of marketing.” a 


In Royal Air Force 


Hon, Wm. Buchan, Son Of Late Lord 
Tweedsmuir, Is Pilot Officer 

Hon. William Buchan, son of the} 
late Eord Tweedsmuir, former gov-) 
ernor-general of Canada, joined the} 
Royal Air Force last summer as an 
aircraftsman (2nd grade), lowest 
rank in the force. Now he is a pilot 
officer in a fighter squadron, 

P.O. Buchan was selected as officer 
material several months ago, took an 
air training course and was granted 
a commission, 

He is married and just before the 
start of the year a baby girl was 
born to his wife. Lord Tweedsmuir, 
a brother and a captain at Canadian 


Corps headquarters, attended the 
christening. 
Hon. Alastair Buchan, another} 


brother, is a lieutenant in the Cana-) 


| a large number of corvettes in a few 
| months. | 


}such an enemy, very much as the, 


; got a little fellow like yours at home, | 


| he spoke. 


dian army and has been on duty at 
Canadian Military headquarters in) 
London. He is returning to Canada, 
shortly to take a new appointment. 


Rural Telephones 
Saskatchewan has more rural tele-| 
phones per capita than any other 
province or country in the world, with 
the possible exception of Sweden, It 
is estimated that for every 100 pop- 
ulation, there are 8.4 telephones in 
the province. 


Both the ultra-violet ray of day- 
light and fresh rain water are fatal 
to earthworms, 


“eyydjependd uj peuedo usaq 
wey AydeaZojoyd jo wnesnu v 


| Britain, subject to approval by the 
| United States government, 


ssary Vitamins 


The Corvette Comes Back 


Useful Little Boats Used Before 
Advent Of Armed Crutser 

In the days of sailing ships, says 
the New York Times, the eyes of the 
fleet, the scout spying out the move- 
ments of the enemy, the guardians 
of merchant convoys and the harriers 
of enemy shipping were the corvettes, 
swift, lightly armed war vessels 
capable of tackling anything less 
formidable than the mighty ships of | 
the line and able easily to outman-| 
oeuvre and outrun those. With the; 
coming of steam and the advent of 
the arnied cruiser they vanished and 
their type was almost forgottes. Now 
the exigencies of this war have 
brought the corvettes back again. 

Canada has led the way in repro- 
ducing this old type.. The Dominion 
needed coast patrol boats in a hurry 
and was none too well equipped in 
the matter of shipyards for building 
heavy warcraft. A type of ship, 
Somewhat analagous to the sub- 
marine chasers of the last war, half 
the size of a destroyer and needing 
@ much smaller personnel, could be 
constructed quickly and seemed likely 
to fill the bill, The Canadians began 
building these with great success. In 
rememberance of the old-time vessels 
they were called corvettes. 

Almost simultaneously Great Bri- 
tain herself began similar construc- 
tion with a different purpose. The 
shortage of cruisers and destroyers |, 
was leaving the convoys on which the 
kingdom depends for its existence al- | 
most at the mercy of ocean-going | 
submarines far out from shore and 
air bombers nearer home. Armed | 
merchant vessels did not fill the bill. 
They proved to be easy targets, slow | 
in manoeuvring and tempting to) 
bombers and surface rdiders. But it} 
takes time, a year, to build a de-| 
stroyer—to bu'ld a_ cruiser even) 
longer. Mass production can produce 


| 


The corvette can scarcely deal with 
a surface raider of size and gun- 
power, although precedent seems to) 
indicate that several of the little) 
fighters might not hesitate to tackle | 


Ajax and the Essex took on the Ger- | 
man pocket battleship von Spee. 
Such surface raiders, however, are. 
comparatively few. The submarine is | 
the greater danger and to deal with) 


out with the same gear as destroyers! 
and presenting an even smaller tar- 
get to gun or torpedo, are ideal . 


Just One Of Hundreds 


Story About Norwegian Soldier Could 
Apply To Many | 
It is almost embarrassing to have 
a young child in London these days. 
I took my boy, aged 18 months, to} 
the May Fair, for a quiet lunch. In! 
the lounge afterwards I noticed a! 
man, in the early twenties, six feet! 
tall, looking at him with insistent in- 
terest. | 
At last, unable to contain his feel-| 
ings any longer, he came over and| 
asked permission to take the child 
in his arms, 
“I’m Norwegian,” he said, 


“T've 


but I’ve had no news of him for over | 
six months, and the sight of this 
chap...” 

There were tears in his eyes as) 


He made no excuse for them, but 
said simply: “I’m a flying officer. 
Next week I’m going out to Canada 
to instruct fellow Norwegians who 
will soon be flying with your R.A.F,”’ | 
— London Daily Sketch. 


Release Danish Ships 


Expect That 38 Vessels Lying Idle 
In U.S, Will Be Used As 
Cargo Vessels 
The New York World-Telegram | 
said that 38 Danish ships—totalling 
250,000 tons—now lying idle in 
United States ports soon would be! 
released to carry cargoes for Great 


In addition, the paper continued, it 
was believed 20 other vessels, total-| 
ling 200,000 tons, in South American 
ports would be similarly released, 

The paper went on to say that it 
had learned through “a_ reliable 
Norwegian source” that a group of 
Danes in Britain had been working 
with Prime Minister Churchill to 
set up @ temporary Danish govern- 
ment to be known as the “National 
Danish Council.” 

This body, the paper related, 
would assume responsibility for the 
release of the vessels, * 2399 


HOTTER THAN HE IMAGINED 


-—Elderman in the Washington Post. 


Diplomatic Relations 


| | Awarded The George Cross 


Reported United States And New Woman Drove Petrol Truck Through 


Zealand May Collaborate 


The United States and New Zea-;| 
land are planning to, establish direct 
diplomatic relations in a move char- 
acterized at Washington as presag- 
ing closer and more friendly collabor- 
ation in the increasingly important 
south Pacific. | 

Viscount Halifax, British ambas-' 
sador, is now conducting conversa- 
tions with the state department, it 
was learned, looking to establishment 
of legations and exchange of min- 
isters in the immediate future. 

New Zealand is the only British 
dominion not represented in Wash- 
ington by its own minister. The 
country’s interests heretofore have 
been represented by the British em- 
bassy. 

New Zealand's strategic import- 
ance in the south Pacific is enhanced 
by its possession or administration of 
islands and territories which stretch 
from just south of Hawaii to the 
Antarctic. New Zealand administers 
a number of Germany’s old colonies 
in this important naval zone under 
mandate from the League of Nations. 
Japan has mandate over some of the 
others. | 

i cia ae ar a amg | 
Former Governor Of Bengal | 
Had Reputation Of Being Most Shot 
At Man In World 

The News of the World says: Sir 

John Anderson, Lord President of the, 


| Council, who has taken over the task 


of straightening out the coal trans- 
port muddle, has earned a name for 
himself as “the most shot at man 
in the world.” While he was Gov- 
ernor of Bengal he had numerous at- 
tempts made on his life, 

During his period as Governor, Sir 
John had a very strange pet. It was 
a young Himalayan bear. It lived in 
Government House stables among the 
horses, and was allowed to walk 
round the gardens. It wore a special 
“pass” round its neck.” | 


| 


Many Books Destroyed 
London book dealers have been 
hard hit by the city’s bomb fires.) 
About 25 publishers’ premises have | 
been ruined or badly damaged. It 
was estimated 6,000,000 books have, 
been destroyed. 


, and clerks into makers of munitions. 


Burning Streets In Leicester 

War's spotlight was turned on the 
women of England. 

Leicester, centre of the hosiery in- 
dustry and now in the doldrums, 
went under survey to determine the 
number of women workers who can 
be transferred to war industries. 

Every manufacturer has been ask- 
ed to release a quota to employees. 
It is expected that this will result 
in the immediate conversion of sev- 
eral hundred fashioners of hosiery 


The hero of the hour was Gillian 
Tanner, comely 21-year-old Glou- 
cester member of the Auxiliary Fire 
Service. She was awarded the George 
Medal for driving a petrol lorry 
through streets studded with large 
fires. 

She raced from blaze to blaze re- 
fueling fire pumps. Nazi raiders were 
raining high explosives and incen- 
diary bombs over the area at the 
time. But white the petrol was un- 
loaded at scores of pumps she cooly 
knitted socks for other members of 
the A.F.S. 

“Knitting is soothing,” she said. 
*Meantime the Auxiliary Territorial 
Service appealed for 20,000 recruits. | 
Some of the khaki-skirted girls are| 
wanted for hush-hush jobs. Others 
will operate teleprinters, drive lorries, | 
or cook for the troops. 


Approved By Admiralty 


Standard Ships Will Soon Be Con-| 
structed On Large Scale 


On the Home Front, an important 
item of news is that standard ships— 
made in sections in steelworks and 
put together in shipyards—have been 
approved by the Admiralty. Their 
construction will soon be resumed on 
a large scale. 

Old yards, closed for years, will be 
reopened. Many steel constructional 
firms will be engaged on the produc- 
tion of these “fabricated” vessels 
which can be turned out on a mass 
production scale like cars.—Overseas 
Daily Mail. 


Much more light is required when 
one is sewing than when one is read- 
ing, especially when a dark thread is 
being used on a dark cloth. 


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| Ambassador, to Annapolis, Md., took 


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down Chesapeake Bay on Jan, 25 was 


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vell’s Libyan Campaign 


Covers Land That Was Once 
Garden Spot Of The World 


When the British advanced toward 
Derna from Tobruk, where sand) 

| 
storms delayed the assault, they left} 


the desert and came into one of tne! 
pleasantest and most ancient garden| 
spots of the world. In fact, says an| 
article in the New York Times, it 
was in this “evening land of the| 
westward sun” that the old Greeks! 
located the Gardens of the Hesper- 
ides. There Hercules, as one of his | 
labors, seized the golden apples of | 
Hera from the dragon of the hundred | 
heads. 

The whole Mediterranean promon- 
tory that swings from Derna around 
to Bengazi and the Gulf of Sidia is a 
fertile crescent of rolling tableland 
bordered only well to the south by 
waterless wastes. Derna, now in the 
hands of British forces, is watered by 
never-failing springs, and the 


rain- 
fall over the rest of the region is so| 
heavy that irrigation is required only 
about once in five years. 

The climate and the prospect sug-| 
gest Central Italy. Indeed, Italy in 
a single generation has made Cyren- | 
aica the showplace of all her colonies. 
Vineyards and olive groves dot the 
landscape. Cypress, juniper and ilex 
grow luxuriantly. One of the chief 
crops is a superior type of barley 
much in demand by Scotch distillers. 
Derna is no longer the dilapidated 
Senussi stronghold over which Gen-| 
eral William Eaton raised the Ameri- 
can flag for a brief interval in 1805. 
It is an attractive modern town, 
Bengazi, farther west, is a handsome} 
city with a peacetime population of 
more than 65,000. Its mosques and 
minarets indicate that it is still con- 
sidered a holy place by the tribes- 
men, 

In ancient times Syrenaica was 
even more prosperous than it is to- 
day. Then the coast had neither sunk 
nor silted and the fertile plain ex- 
tended much deeper into the desert. 
It was there in the seventh century, 
B.C., that the Greeks founded the 
city that was to become the greatest 
of all Greek communities overseas. 
Indeed, Cyrene was known as “the 
Athens of Africa.” At the peak of 
its power it was the metropolis of a 
vast granary that fed the homeland 
in famine years. It had a population 
of more than 100,000 and among its 


}famous citizens were Erastothenes, 


the geographer, and Callimachus, the 
poet. Most of its ruins. still 
buried in the coastal sands behind 
the port of Mersa Susa, but the Ital- 


eed 


lie 


Feast For British Tors , | 


Larder Well Filled While Battleship 
Was In U.S. Harbor 

The 1,500 men and 80 officers who 

Halifax, British 


new 


away a good big taste of the United 
States, 

Loaded onto the 
George V., before 


battleship 
it 


King 
headed back 
$5,000 worth of food, including such 
delicacies as eggs, fruit and fresh 
vegetables. The supplies were not ex- 
pected to last long, but they at least 
gave British tars a series of feasts 
such as they have not known since| 
the blitzkrieg began, | 

First thing the ship's officers asked | 
for when they landed was a dish of 
fried eggs and some onions. The lat- 
ter, they said, they had not tasted in 
six months, 

Purchases made in Baltimore, Md., 
and Annapolis markets, with 


advice 


| of supply officers at the Naval Acad- 


emy included; 
One ton of carrots, 1,200 pumpkins, 


19,000 apples, 160 gallons of tomato 
| puree, 


2,000 cans of tomatoes, 600 
cans of cooked ham, 24,000 tins of 
beans, 60 tins of blackberries, 6 tins 
of loganberries, 400 pounds of maca 


| roni, 200 pounds of tea, 1,000 tins of 
| apricots, 


1,000 tins of pineapple, 2 
tons of onions, 1,200 pounds of beets, 
8,000 pounds of cabbage, 1,100 heads 
of cauliflower 1,200 pounds of toma- 
toes and 5,000 pounds of Brussels 


sprouts, 
Also 3,580 oranges, 1,440 lemons, 
2,000 grapefruit, 35 pounds of ba- 


nanas, 14,000 eggs, and one ton of 
butter. } 


Medal For British Farmers 
Farmers R. H. Blunt and Wiliam 
Harris were awarded the George 
Medal for threshing corn while un- 


der direct fire from the French coast, | 
Put these | and machine-gunning from 


the air 
well as anti-aircraft shrapnel 
falling around them. 


One tree can make a _ million 
matches, but one match can destroy 
a million trees. 


‘to the 
{of the Department of Mines and Re- 


jans have done much excavation and 
unearthed some of the loveliest 
Statues of antiquity. 

Two strange plants are associated 
with ancient Cyrenaica. One was 
silphium, to which Cyrene owed its 
prosperity more than any other pro- 
duct of the soil. Silphium was a 
medicinal herb regarded by the whole 
Mediterranean world as a sovereign 
cure for almost every ailment, from 
croup and open wounds to the bites 
of venomous snakes and mad dogs. 
So great was the demand for it that 
it became literally worth its weight 
in silver. Finally the Romans taxed 
the crop so heavily that the natives 
systematically destroyed the plant. 
It is now extinct. A weed that dis- 
tantly resembles it still thrives in 
the pastures, but it is poisonous and 
camels have to be against 
nibbling it. Not long ago an Italian 
physician was reported to have found 
genuine silphium in valley 


muzzled 


a near 


| Bengazi. 


The other plant was the Lotus for 
Cyrenaica was the fabled land of the 
Lotus Eaters. It was here that the 
mariners of having tasted 
the mysterious fruit, were content to 
remain “with half-shut eyes ever to 
seem falling asleep in a half dream.” 
Herodotus declared that the lotus had 
a sweet taste like the fruit of the 
date palm. But nobody to-day is cer. 
tain what it was. It may have been 
the shrub lotus, which bears a more 


Ulysses, 


;or less palatable berry, or a kind of 


clover. 

Bengazi, the Berenice of the 
Ptolomies, is an even older site than 
Cyrene and perhaps was the first 
capital of the Lotus Eaters, Its 
origin is shrouded deep in myth, It 
was in the country back of this town 
that the Gardens of the Hesperides 
were supposed to lie, the goal of all 
happy spirits, It was at Bengazi also 
that the River Lethe poured its 
waters of forgetfulness into the un- 
derworld. “Here Lethe's 
Says the poet, “from secret springs 
below rose to the light; here, heavily 
and slow, the dull, forgetful 
waters flow.” 

The legend of the oblivion con- 
ferred by its waters may be connect- 
ed with similar qualities attributed 
to the lotus, but the river itself is no 
myth. A stream, believed to be the 
original Lethe, rises near Bengazi to- 
day and is finally lost amid under- 
ground caverns. It is not certain, 
however, that its waters will help the 
Italians forget their present troubles. 


stream,” 


silent, 


Wood Has Many Uses 


Canada’s Forests Yield 
Range Of Products 
Apart from their 


source of 


A Wide 
importance as a 
raw material for the lum- 
ber and pulp and paper industries, 
Canada’s forests yield widening 
range of products derived in whole 
or in part from wood in which this 
material is not apparent. According 
Forest Products Laboratories 


sources, the largest group of such 
from wood pulp 
The modern package of cigarettes is 
a striking example. In getting cig- 
arettes from the factory to the con- 
sumer no 


articles is derived 


than different 
grades of wood pulp are used in the 


making of 


less seven 


cartons, adhesive paper, 


packages, transparent wraps, tissues, 
excise stamps, and cigarette papers 
Rayon 


of wood pulp, but 


is a well-known derivative 
at 


one stage in 


their creation rayon stockings, ties 
or drapes might equally well have be 
come movie film, artificial leather, 
cordite, or the glossy finish on an 
automobile 

Wood is an important, though 
rarely noticed, element in automobile 
batteries, and is also an ingredient of 
many floor coverings, explosives, and 
plasti products such as electric 
switch buttons, radio cabinets, and 
all sorts of novelties. It also provides 


1 number of medicinal products and 


is likely to become an _ increasingly 
important contributor to man’s diet 
through the production of sugar and 
possibly other substances, Already 
wood is a valuable source of vanilla 
flavouring 
Idea Ts Original 
Since the outbreak of the war 


| more than 6,000 inventions and ideas 

have been submitted to the Aus- 
| tralian army headquarters for coun- 
| ter-checking the enemy. One of the 
most original, if not the most prac- 
| tical, was to solidify the clouds, thus 
intercepting bombers 


A newspaper dispatch read as fol- 
lows: “The Greeks captured 600 Ital- 
ians and 300 mules. The 
sisted gallantly.” 


mules re- 


THE OHRONICLE, OARBON, 


ALTA. 


Italy will send 40,000 more workers | 
for employment in German industry, 
making a total of about 110,000. 

Netherlanders the world over 
preparing to pay a “voluntary” 
come tax to help arm the 
forces. 

The Royal Canadian Air Force} 
made known that Americans enlist- 
ing in the air force no longer get a) 
written agreement exempting them 
from overseas service, 


are | 
in- | 
Dutch 


| 
Great lakes steamship authorities 


said they expect a shortage of ex- 
perienced seamen on the lakes this 
year to the number of sailors 
who have joined the armed services. 


due 


Sugar beet 
from 


acreage will be reduced 
99 


23,964 to 22,600 in southern} 
Alberta in 1941 because of large 
Sugar stocks in western Canada, it 


was announced. 

A plane recently completed to be} 
used in anti-aircraft is) 
radio-controlled, 


practice, 
powered with a 80- 
horsepower engine and is capable of 
a top speed of 150 miles an hour. 


Construction in Halifax harbor of 
a floating drydock big enough to ac-} 
commodate the largest merchant and | 
fighting ships afloat was possible in} 
the near future, the Halifax Chron- 
icle said, | 


Postmaster General Mulock said} 
mail moving through the 
office and addressed to Canadian sol- 


diers abroad in 1940 totalled approxi- | 


base post | 


mately 5,600,000 letters, 596,000 | 
pounds of newsprint and _ 3,260,000/ 
pounds of parcels, ° 


The labor department reported a 
total of 10 strikes and lockouts dur- 
ing January involved 1,453 workers | 
and caused a time loss of 3,238 man 
working days. In the _ preceding 
month there were nine such disputes | 
involving 903 workers and time loss | 
of 3,360 days, 


SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON 


FEBRUARY 23 


JESUS CALLS TO PRAYER 


Golden text: Lord, teach us to pray. | 
Luke 11:1. | 
Lesson: Luke 18. H 
Devotional reading: Isaiah 62:1-7. 


Explanations and Comments 


Men Ought Always to 
not to Faint, Luke 18:1-8. And he! 
spake a parable unto them to the} 
end that they ought always to pray! 
and not to faint. Recall our lesson} 
about three months ago which also 
sressed persistence in prayer, about] 
the man who came to a friend's house 
at midnight and by his importunity | 
obtained what he needed. Dr. Jowett 
suggests that the counsel that men 
ought always to pray and not to faint | 
should be turned into a promise; men | 
ought always to pray and they will 
not faint. “When a man faints in the 
day of adversity it is because a line 
of communication has somehow been 
cut, and he has lost touch with his 
base of supplies. He has become sep- 
arated from his spiritual resources, 
and in the heavy demands of the 
campaign he has begun to lose heart. 
The heart retains its hope and cour- 
age as long as new forces and new 
supplies arrive. . . Now it is prayer 
which keeps open the road between 
the soul and its resources, 


Pray and 


Prayer Should Be Humble And 
Sincere, Luke 18:9-14. Jesus now 
turns in thought to those who trust- 
ed in themselves that they were 


righteous and in their pride of self- 


satisfied attainment set all others at | 
nought. To them Jesus gives another | 
parable, or rather, more _ strictly 
speaknig, an imaginary incident. A 


Pharisee and a publican went up into 
the temple to pray at one of the reg- 
ular hours for prayer. | 

Standing in a conspicuous place 
(Mt. 6:5), the Pharisee recalled his 
virtues to God's attention; unlike 
others, even this publican, he was not 
an extortioner, nor unjust, nor an| 
adulterer; he fasted twice in the week | 
(the law required only one fast a} 
year, Ley, 16:29, but many Jews fast- 
ed every Monday and Thursday); and 
he tithed all that he had (the law 
requires only a tithing of farm pro- 
ducts; the fruits of the field and of 
itie cattle). The Phariseé’s fault wast 
that of self-complacency and of con- 
tempt of others, which a Pharisee of 
recent years paralleled in his prayer, 

O Lord, the more I of other 
people the more I likes myself,” t 

In contrast to ine Pharisee, the 
publican stood affar off smiting his 
breast and crying, “God, be merciful 
lo me a Sinner 


sees 


Saskatchewan Coal 

Coal 
for the 
132,532 


mined in Saskatchewan 


Saskatchewan 
1940 totalled 

all the coal 
is in the Es- 


production in 


third quarter of 


tons. Practically 


tevan district, and is of a lignite 
variety. | 

Contrary to many popular story 
writers, bear tracks do not resemble 


those of humans 
There are 14,534 miles of railways 
in the Union of South Africa. | 


Every particle of the earth, 


A dog that can 


“hear a bomb} 


| overhead is boasted by an English, 


friend of a Galt, Ont., 
| letter telling of her air raid experi- 


;ences. The dog, she says, pays no} 


resident, in a 


| attention to AA fire or roaring planes, 


but all 


of a sudden he “gets up and) 


| Two artificial means of dissipating } 
leave" when an enemy plane is flying | fog above airports have 


been de- 
Sverre Petterssen, 
Institute of Tech- 


veloped by Dr. 
| Massachusetts 
nology. 

Dr. Petterssen said a system where- 
by the airport was heated has been 
| successful in clearing fog from the 


scoots under a large heavy table in| runways by evaporation. 


the hall. 
| wrong. 


calmly 


Colonel 


British 


a famous 
| Newcomb 
| brothers could not possibly fly. 


from 
chalk to diamonds, once was only | 
gas, according to scientists. 2399 | 


I go after him. He is never 
When the bomb lands we 
emerge, pick up the knitting 


| by the fire and carry on till the next 
| time.” 


Lindbergh 


natural scientist, 
“proved” that the Wright 


18 61 


nine Wal | 


a 


RAILWAY 


may feel that) 
cannot win the war, but then | 
Simon | 


The second experiment was to 
spray a solution of sulphur chloride 
into the fog above the airport. «An 
area 150 feet wide, 30 feet in height 
}and 1,500 feet long, was cleared by 
| this method, he said. 


Some people are comparing Hitler 
with Napoleon—but there is one dif- 
ference. Napoleon fought 
| front line with his troops. 


19 4 


shite tecert ‘ 


STEAMSHIPS 


in the! 


EXPRESS 


Thousands of posters with a 
jlarger-than life size portrait of 
Prime Minister Churchill are being 
made for distribution throughout 
the Empire. 

Mr. Churchill, wearing a black 
hat and smiling grimly, is shown 
against a background of the Eng- 
lish countryside with a column of 
tanks moving across it and a squad- 
ron of fighting planes overhead. 
Posters carry the phrase, “Let Us) 
Go Forward!” translated into every 
language spoken in the Empire. 


The Brazilian pygmy marmoset | 
is the smallest known monkey in the | 


world. It weighs four and one- -half | 
}ounces, or twice as much as a 
‘mouse. 


Common People 

It is the Man in the Street who is 
fighting Britain’s war. A distinguish- 
ed American visitor, with all govern- 
ment doors opened to him by magic, 
can do his fact-finding at Whitehall 
and Downing Street and in the grim 
defences of “Hell's Corner” on the 
Channel coast. But it is behind hum- 
bler doors that the real strength of 
Britain lies. The measure of Eng- 
lish courage must be taken in the 
bom!) shelters, and the corner stores, 
and among the free-speaking patrons 
of the pubs.—_New York Times. 


It now turns out that Italian sea 
| power has presented a problem to the 
British. The problem at Tobruk is 
clearing away the hulks of seventeen 


\ 
— ane ~ Another Clever Dog Ideas Have Been Developed New Poster For Empire Real Stren Of Britain Ra 
WORLD HAPPENINGS Knows Difference In S ie i Prof Demonstrates Methods Of| Shows Winston Churchill With Cap-| I = iomes New Air Base 
nows erence In Soun ween | Professor Demonstra ethods ow 's To Be Found In Hi Of The 
BRIEFLY TOLD Bombs And AA Guns Dissipating Fog Over Airports | tion “Let Us Go Forward” Newfoundland Base Will Not Be 


Finished For A Year 

Col. Frank Knox, Secretary of the 
United States Navy, told a press con- 
ference that construction on the 
navy’s new base at Argentia Bay, 
Newfoundland, probably will not be 
finished for a year, but that the base 
can be used in the meantime. Col. 
Knox said naval planes already have 
operated from the bay, although none 
is based there now. The construction 
contract of $4,860,000 is held by a 
Boston firm. 


A Fair Question 
Junior: “Daddy, are you sure that 
the world is round?” 
Daddy: “Yes, I’m positive.” 
“Well, then, how can people go to 


sunken Italian ships from the harbors.| the far corners of the earth?” 


a 


THE MARQUIS OF LORNE, K.T., G.C.M.G. 


GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA, 1878-1883 


GO YEARS AGO 


A Charter was signed 


On February 15, 1881, the Marquis of Lorne, then Governor-General 
of Canada, signed the charter of the Canadian Pacific Railway. That 
signature consummated the vision of great Canadian statesmen — Sir 
John A. Macdonald, D'Arcy McGee, Sir Georges-Etienne Cartier, and 
Sir Charles Tupper—that the new Dominion of Canada should be linked 
from Atlantic to Pacific by a trans-continental railway—and implemented 
the pledge under which British Columbia entered Confederation, 


So began a new era‘in Canadian unity...and Empire solidarity... for 
the Railway expanded into a system spanning two oceans and linking 


three continents. 


Today —as in 1914-18 —a proud responsibility 


rests on our transportation and communication systems — railway; 


steamships, freight, express, telegraphs and engineering shops. 
Canadian Pacific officers and employees everywhere are co-operating 
—each in his own fleld—towards the common goal... VICTORY. 
When that goal is reached —and it will be reached —this will be 
due, in no small measure, to Canada’s contribution, and to the 
vision and foresight of the men who, sixty years ago, planned the 


construction of the first 


HOTELS 


Canadian trans-continental 


COMMUNICATIONS 


railways 


sHOPS 


THE CHRONICLE. CARBON. 


ALTZ. 


DIRECT RELIEF 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO 
BE DISCONTINUED 


Ottawa. — Dominion contributions 
for direct relief will be discontinued 
March 31, Labor Minister McLarty 
announced. 

On the present basis of a 40 per 
cent. contribution by the Dominion, 
40 per cent. by the provinces and 20 
per cent. by the municipalities, it is 
estimated direct relief in the fiscal 
year 1941-42 would cost the Domin- 
fon government $7,000,000 as against 
an actual outlay of $13,200,000 in the 
present fiscal year, the minister told 
@ press conference. 

Relief rolls had been so reduced 
however, that the estimated expendi- 
ture of the provinces and the muni- 
cipalities in bearing the whole cost 
would be $2,800,000 less in 1941-42 


than they were in the fiscal year end- 


ing next March 31, with the Domin- 
ion making its contribution. 

“The provinces 
pledged their desire to co-operate 
with the Dominion in matters essen- 
tial to the prosecution of the war,” 
said a prepared statement issued by 
the minister. 


“In the Spinion of the government | 
this co-operation can be extended | 


and will be extremely helpful if each 
of the provinces assumes the re- 
sponsibility of such unemployment 
aid as may be necessary in the com- 
ing year.” 

Immense Dominion expenditures 
for war purposes and on social ser- 
vices in other ways, coupled with a 
shrinkage in the number of unem- 


ployed due to war activities, were | 


given by Mr. McLarty as reasons for 
the step which will bring to an end 


10 years of participation by the Do- | 


minion in relief for unemployment 
and agricultural distress. 


have repeatedly | by wadis (dried river beds) and ob- 


Italian Rout 


Electric Whiskers Blames General 
Tellera For Defeat 


—General Annibale (Electric 
Wises) Bergonzoli, captured by 
British troops in the sand dunes of 

Libya, laid responsibility for the final 
Italian rout gt Bengasi on Gen. Tel- 
lera, commander of the 10th army 
who died of wounds suffered fighting 
south of that fallen port. 

Gen. Bergonzoli said he had ad- 
vised the immediate evacuation of 
Bengasi when straggling Italian 
troops arrived there from Derna, but 
Gen. Tellera believed there was ade- 
quate time to retreat and decided to 
wait another 24 hours. 


The British and Australian troops) 
from the north 


struck at Bengasi 


and also trapped Italians attempting | oq only to Sir Perey Vincent when | 


to flee to the southwest. 


Gen. Tellera was wounded fatally) 


when an Italian anti-tank gun back- 
fired, Bergonzoli said. 

Gen. Bergonzoli 
escape from Bardia, 


With 25 staff officers he said he! 


, walked for five nights in the retreat, 
| Sleeping by day in hideouts afforded 


| 


taining food from Bedouin tribesmen. 
After reaching Tobruk he got out 


|of there by airplane to Derna. From 


there he said he retreated with the 
last Italian contingent before the Bri- 
tish forces entered. 

He was among the Italians stream- 
ing out of Bengasi toward Tripoli 
when captured, 


Call For Service 


Imminent Call-Up For 19-Year-Old 
Youths In Britain 
London.—Britain announced youths 
19 years old will be called for mili- 
tary service almost immediately. 
In the house of lords, Lord Moyne, 


| 
government leader and colonial sec-}| 


retary, disclosed the imminent call- 
up for 19-year-olds. Oldsters of 37 


The system of Dominion contribu-| to 40 will be summoned soon after- 
tions to unemployment relief started | ward, he said, to swell the 4,000,000 


in 1930 and while changes occurred men Britain already has under arms) 
from time to time Dominion grants | for 


were paid each year to assist prov- 
inces and municipalities in support- | 
ing people who were unable to ob- 
tain work or were otherwise unable. 
to obtain a living. 


Dominion government expenditure | 


Since 1930 amounts to a total 
about $400,000,000. At one 
during the depression more 


the defensive—and offensive— 


| campaigns to come. 


These, along with 18-year-olds, 
were registered Jan. 29, but it was 
indicated the youngest class would 
be the last called yp. 

Men from 20 to 36 who are fit for) 


of | | military service and whose skills are) lare here with the local 
time | [not more useful in other work, have| functioning. Shops are reopening. 
than | been enrolled in successive stages for 


1,000,000 persons were dependent on military training. 
relief to which the Dominion was | 


contributing. 

From the first the contributions 
were made on the principle that the 
relief of unemployment was prim- 
arily the responsibility of the muni- 
cipalities, ‘secondly that of the pro-| 
vincial governments and only in the 
last resort that of the Dominion. 


Dominion contributions were made} 


| 
| 


The call-up total will not be known 
| until registration, but the age groups 
average from 200,000 to 250,000. 


Seeking Refuge 


Refugees From Nazi-Conquered Coun- 
tries Pouring Into U.S, 
Washington. 


-Fleeing from Nazi- 


when it was recognized “unemploy- | conquered central Europe in fear of 
ment had become a national problem | persecution because of their religious 
and the relief bill reached a volume! 0r political beliefs, more than 4,000 


beyond the capacity of the munici-|’¢fugees a month—mostly Jews— 


palities and the provinces. 


The Answer Is No 


War In 


U.S. Aid To Britain 
Washington. — President Roosevelt 


forced into war in the Pacific it 
would not have to curtail deliveries 
of war supplies to Britain. 

He said also he thought there was 


no danger of getting into such a war. | 
| pied France. 


A big bloc of refugees seeking ad- | 
mission is made up of 85,000 Span- | 


A reporter at the president's press 
conference asked this question: 
‘If the United States should hap- 


pen to get into war in the Far East, | 


would that affect our 
Britain?” 

Describing the inquiry as “awfully 
iffy,’ Mr. Roosevelt said there still 
was no reason why he should not an- 
swer it. 
asserted, that the answer is no, that 
it would not affect the deliveries, 


deliveries to 


Seek Barter With Russia 

“Moscow.—A trade delegation of 
three Germans and five Belgians rep- 
resenting Nazi-conquered Belgium 
arrived here to negotiate a barter 
agreement with Soviet Russia, It is 
understood to seek food in exchange 
for industrial equipment. 


German Art Treasures 

London, — German art treasures 
worth at least $8,900,000 are en 
route to the United States for sale, 
the 
warfare declared, The ministry said 
the Nazis hoped to gain foreign ex- 
change. 


Entertained By Royalty 
London.-Members of the home 
guard and air raid precaution unit of 
.Buckingham palace were entertained 
recently by the King and Queen, at- 
tending the showing of a film in the 
dining room of the palace, 


It is perfectly obvious, he} 


British ministry of economic) 


are 


| pouring into United States with hope 
| of finding freedom as American citi- 


zens. 


State department records show 


| that since last July 1 more than 32,- 


Pacific Would Not Affect | 900 immigrant visas had been issued 


| to such refugees. 


| 


| 000 requests- 


An estimated 600,000 applications 


said that if the United States were| fr visas are now on file in United 


States consulates throughout Europe, 
officials said. 
mostly from Jews—in 
Germany or German-occupied coun- 
tries, and another 200,000 in unoccu- 


iards in France, some of whom are} 


held in concentration camps as Com-| 


munists or undesirables. 


De Valera Warns People 


Prime Minister Of Eire Expects 
Country To Be Attacked 

New York.—Prime Minister Eamon 
de Valera warned the people of neu- 
tral Eire that war is near, and said 
in a broadcast that compulsory evacu- 
tion of Dublin will be resorted to 
should voluntary” evacuation prove 
insufficient. 

A summary of Mr, de Valera’s ad- 
dress, as broadcast by the British 
Broadcasting Corporation and heard 
by Columbia Broadcasting system 
here, said the prime minister warned 
that “the first attack on us would be 
our capital.” 

Mr, de Valera said that already 
200,000 men of the population of 
8,000,000 had responded to the gov- 
ernments’ appeal for volunteers to 
the Irish army. 


Will Resume Mail Service 
Ottawa.—Mail service from Can- 
ada to Greenland will be resumed 
shortly after temporary suspension 
due to lack of steamship facilities, 
the postmaster-general’s department 
announced 2399 


also told of his) 


There have been 300,-| 


A Real Westerner 


Well-Known narvipes Dies In A 
Toronto Hospital 


Toronto. — Lauchlin Alexander 
Hamilton, 89, internationally-known 
surveyor and last surviving member 
| Of the original Vancouver city coun- 
cil, died in hospital after a lengthy 
illness, 

Hamilton was one of the men 
credited with the growth of the west 
as general land commissioner of the 
Canadian Pacfiic Railway, for whom 
he supervised selection of the 25,- 
000,000 acres of land granted the 
|company by the government, 

He laid out the townsite of Van- 
| couver, then Granville, 56 years ago 
and in 1938 was made a freeman of 
| the city, an honor previously accord- 


|he was lord mayor of London, and 
| Sir Edward Beatty. 


|to be cleared and where Vancouver 
;was to rise and laid out the city’s 
| street system. He was Vancouver's 
senior alderman for many years be- 
fore moving to Winnipeg, where he 
| took an active part in public life. 


Winnipeg Rugby Football Club. 


THE UNION JACK 
IS NOW FLYING 


Bengasi, Libya—All Cyrenaica is 
Mussolini’s Roman eagles still perch 
upon the pillars of this lost jewel of 
| Fascist empire. 

Mottoes on the buildings extol the 
new Roman empire, but the Union 
Jack hangs from the Bengasi city 
|hall and British and Australian sol- 
{diers walk in the streets. 

Proclamations on the walls an- 
nounce that the former Italian prov- 
|ince, which the Fascists incorporated 
gto Libya, is under British military 
rule, with Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Mait- 
land Wilson as governor. 


| All 40,000 natives and some 7,000 
| of the city’s 20,000 Italian civilians 
government 


The main problem has been to stop 
looting of Italian property by natives, 
| and orders have been given to shoot. | 

‘So far shots have been fired only as 
| warning. 


British patrols are striving to re- 


|store order in the countryside where | 
| natives have killed a number of Ital-! 


ian agricultural colonists and _pill- 
|aged their small homes. 


He surveyed the forest that was| 


He was one of the founders of the | 
Manitoba club and a president of the | 


OVER BENGAS! 


| 


lpdactetnenan F.D.R.’s FEDORA 


Roosevelt has 


President 
away the battered gray fedora which 


given 
he wore—for good luck- 
three presidential campaigns. 
Actor Jean Hersholt got it—to raffle 
off for the benefit of the motion pic- 
ture relief fund in Los Angeles next 


during his 


Movie | 


Expansion Planned 


Addition Will Be Made To 
ment Plant In Toronto 
Ottawa. Construction work on a 
$5,000,000 expansion project at the 
Inglis company's armaments plant in 
| Toronto will get underway April 1, a 
munitions and = supply department 
spokesman said. 
Howe announced the plans 
addition recently 

The additions to the plant are be- 
ing financed by the crown. 

Some $800,000 is spent to 
further the plant's Bren gun produe- 
tion program and something 
$4,000,000 will go into plant 
sion directed at stepped-up output of 
anti-tank guns. 


Pilots Like New Fighter 


U.S. Tomahawks Make 
Hour At 


Arma- 


for 


to be 


830 Miles An 
15,000 Fect 


Somewhere in England- In a 10- 
minute mock air duel, a Curtiss 
Tomahawk fighter out-manoéuvred 


and outsped a British Hurricane over 


month. | this production station where the 
- - — — United States-made Tomahawks and 
° ° ° | Mohawks are assembled for the 

Deal With Soil Erosion fear air rovce 
The Tomahawk pilot said the ship 
Millions Of Trees To Be Distri- wag ¢q dream to fly.” He said he 
buted In West This Year put it through the battle with only 
Ottawa. — Dr. E. S. Archibald, 10 minutes of rehearsal, Tomahawks 
director of the experimental farms have a speed of 830 miles an hour) 

service, said that between 7,000,000, at 15,000 feet. 


and 8,000,000 trees will be distributed 
this year as part of the program of} 
giving the prairie trees to fight off! 
drouth, 

In 20 years nearly 200,000,000 trees 


jhave gone out from forest nursery | 


settling down under British rule, but | 


stations to fight soil erosion and give 
shelter to homes on the plains. 
Under the prairie farm ng eth | 
tion program, trees are being estab- | 
lished near many thousands of dug- 
outs and more than 2,000 dams now 
completed, Stout tree growth, 


where water reservoirs are establish- 


|ed and make possible the growing of 


| 
| 


protected gardens and other types 
of trees which would not flourish if 
exposed to prairie winds when newly 
planted. 

Dr. Archibald said ash, maple and 
carragana were being used, with 
trees less adapted to prairie condi- 


tions often planted within the protec- 


tion of hardy carragana. 


Military Training Period 


'Is Now Tentatively Set For March 
20 As The Earliest Feasible Date 
Ottawa, Defence headquarters 

said March 20 has been chosen as the 

“earliest feasible date” for opening 

of the fourth compulsory military 

training period under the National 

Resources Mobilization Act, first 


A 6:30 p.m. curfew has been im-! period of four months’ duration. 
posed to prevent violence or sabotage, | 


but the Italian population remains | kenzie King said March 15 


docile. 


Those Italians remaining are mostly! officials emphasized the “big job” 


Previously, Prime Minister Mac- 


» would be 
the opening date, 


but department 


pre- 


anti-Fascist or indifferent to Fascist| paring for the revised training pro- 
gram schedule prevented an earlier 
| Axis planes have hammered at Ben-! opening. 


politics. Ardent Fascists fled. 


|gasi every night since the British} 


{troops established themselves here 
and began converting the erstwhile 


board for 
} and Italy. 
| They have been 
| scant damage done, 
| The value of the lira has been set 
at 400 to the pound sterling, making 
it worth about one cent instead of 


chased off with 


| the official Italian rate of five cents. | 


This rate, the British say, is based 


on “black bourse,” or unofficial, 
|quotations which British authorities 
accept as a better indication of the: 
|lira’s real value. 
ing steeply. 


——_$ $= 


/ nouncing 
| Fascist base into a formidable spring- 1 forthcoming training 
further attacks on Tripoli’ 


A spokesman at national defence 


| headquarters said a proclamation an- 


details of 
period will 


the 
be 


complete 


issued shortly. 

Extension of the compulsory train- 
ing period from 30 days to four 
months was announced by Mr. King 
Feb. 3. 

Meat Stocks In Storage 

Ottawa.—Reported stocks of Cana- 
dian meat in cold storage through- 
out the country Feb, 1 showed an in- 
crease of more than 13,000,000 pounds 
over total Canadian meat stocks on 


Prices are mount- | the same date last year, the Domin- 


ion bureau of statistics reported. 


YOUR CERTIFICATES NEEDED NOW! 


like 
carragana, provide shelter’in sections | 


PASSAGE OF THE 
“LEND LEASE BILL 
IS NOW ASSURED 


| Washington 


By March 1 or soon 
afterwards President Roosevelt should 
have complete power to lend, lease or 
give Britain any military 
chooses, Pass: ' 
dented lend lease 


supplies he 
the 
bill is now 


ge of unprece 


assured 


All that remains is an atte mpt to get 
as large a senate majority for the 
bill as possible so as to present to 


the world 
phrase “a 

To that 
ers in the senate are 
amendments to the bill 
| lines suggested by Mr. 
admittedly would make 
| tion less flexible but might 
Support for it. His only significant 
proposal was that the lease lend prin- 
ciple be confined at to Bri- 
tain, Greece and China with congress 
empowered to add to the list of bene- 
ficiary nations. 

While the bill should be 
the United States 
night this does not 
ehange in America’s 


in Mr. Wendell Wilkie’s 
acle of national unity.” 
end, lead- 
considering 
the 
which 


Spect 


administration 


along 
Wilkie, 


the legisla- 


present 


the 
about 


law of 
fort- 
vast 


In a 


mean any 
immediate aid 
to Britain and that 
better than the British government 
The administration has steadfastly 
refused to indicate what. it 
with its new powers at the start, 
the plain fact is that this 
‘the moment has little 
or giye to Britain. 

Already Britain 
of America’s fighting 
they come off the assembly 
will continue to get them, reg 
of the lend = bill, Mr 
urged the United States to 
tain 


no 


one knows 


would do 
but 
country at 
to lend, lease 


is getting most 


airplanes as 
lines and 
rardles 
Wilkie 
Bri- 
bombers 


s 
lease- 
give 
more of the existing 
but, if this is done, they must come 
out of the scanty stores of the army 
which has than 700 first line 
planes and few of them up to British 
standards, or from the navy, 
has about 2,500. The steady, 
small stream of bombers now flying 
across the ocean to Britain sug 
that the government is sending 
|} can afford, 

Mr. Wilkie’s proposed gift 
or ten destroyers 


less 


which 
though 


gests 


all it 


of five 
a month may offer 
some hope of naval aid, but it is 


known that the United States navy 
feels it needs all its present ships. The 
belief persists in Washington, how 


ever, that another destroyer deal may 
yet be made and meanwhile new de 
stroyers are being rushed to comple- 
tion here, 

It is now reognized everywhere 
Washington that the lend-lease 
must be accompanied by 
rapid increase in the pro 
gram which, as already explained in 
these despatches, 


in 
hill 
a large and 


armament 


is not yet 
for the job of beating Germany 
one doubts now, that this 
will be ordered as fast as 

j industries can be 
| The mechanics of the lease-lend 
| legislation not widely under- 
| stood. Once this bill becomes law, the 
| British and American armament pro- 
{grams, in this country become one 
| Britain's former orders for about four 
| billion dollars will be filled, of course, 
but Britain will order no more. The 
United tSates government will order 


adequate 
No 
speedup 
America’s 
mobilized, 


are 


everything it needs for its own pur-, leather 


poses and for 
tain, 


lease or loan to Bri- 


Munitions Minister | 
the | @nnounc ed 


| shortly 


MOTOR VEHICLES 
CONTROLLER WILL 
BE APPOINTED 


Ottawa Finance 
the 


appoint 


Minister ,Ilsley 
government — will 
@ motor vehicles 
to safeguard war produc- 
against civilian for 


controller 


tion demands 


| automobiles, 


over | 
expan-, 


| December, 
| number 


The minister also announced that 
the total prohibition against importa- 
tion of new passenger 


in the War 


cars, imposed 
Conservation Act last 
will be lifted and a limited 
of imports allowed 
quota basis 

It now 
that this 


creating 


on oa 


was apparent, 
prohibtion, in 
hardships, 
to 
manufacturing 
“ata 
labor 
The 
March 
of the 
average 
1938, 


however, 
to 
some 
setting up 
in Canada 
when machine tools and 
extremely 
quota for the 
31 next will 


addition 
has led 
companies consider 
facilities 
time 
“are scarce.” 
quarter ending 
20 per cent. 
value of cars imported on the 
the same 
and 1940, 


Firms not 


be 


for 
1939 


quarters in 
cars in Can- 
1940, will not be 
more 


producing 
to Dee, 2, 
permitted to produce 
they 


ada prior 
cars than 


could under = import 


obtain 


| quota 


she 


jloward German 


increase | 


ns a prepared statement 
said a motor 
be 


Hee sumed 


the min- 
controller 

It 
importing 
immediately 


er vehicle 
“shortly.” 


for 


aeais named was 


permits cars 
but 
indicated pending the 


details of the 


lw ould be available 


this was not 


issue of full new 
measure 

Purpose 
“direct the 


highly 


of the 
automobile 


to 
in 


is 
industry 
and successful 
production on which the 
and to s¢ 
against 
automobiles.” 


change 


important 
war indus- 
ifeguard that 


civilian 


try is engaged, 


war production de- 
mands for 
Prohibition of 


lished last 


imports was estab- 


December as a means of 
conserving foreign exchange and it 
was then hoped that any further 
control would be unnecessary. 

“That prohibition,” the statement 
said, “in addition to imposing hard- 
ships, probably greater on the whole 
in the automobile business than in 
other businesses affected by the act, 
has also had the effect of leading 


some companies to consider setting 


up manufacturing facilities in Can- 


ada under conditions which cannot 


permit of economical production and 


at. a time when machine tools and 
labor for tooling plants are ex- 
tremely searce,” 

“Quotas will be set up for each 
succeeding quarter after investiga- 
tion by the controller and the de- 
partment of national revenue but it 
is not anticipated subsequent quotas 


will differ greatly from the initial one 
the of war work 
further of the 
of new cars for 


except as pressure 


requires restriction 
provision motor 
civilian use.” 


US. Daatiaran 


Auxiliary Naval Vessel Is) May 
Potential Source Of Aid To 
Britain 
The des 
between Navy Secretary 
Wendell L. 
some informed 
the 45 
auxiliary naval vess 
further 
to their 
auxiliaries 


Be 


Washington, 
pute 


dis 
Frank 
Wilkie led 
to mention 


troyer 
Knox and 
persons 
pool of recently converted 
els as a potential 
aid to Britain, 


source of 


Prior these 
of the 
traded 


pointed out, 


conversion, 
were 

the 
but now, 


destroyers 


sume type as 50 already 
Britain 
the 
destroyers 
ed 


strength of 


it was 


ships technically are no longer 


not count- 
fleet's destroyer 


and hence 
the 


are 
of 

160, 
statement that no more 
could 


aus 


part 


de- 
“without 


Knox's 
be 
our fleet” 
apply 
noted 


stroyers spared 
did not, 


auxiliaries, 


depleting strictly 


speaking, to these 
SOUPCOCS 
The 
statement an 
Wilkie's that 


American destroyers be 


the 
lo 
10 
sent to Bri- 


navy made 


in 


secretary 


indirect reply 


plea from five to 


tain each month to meet her “des- 


perate need,” 
Wilkie, in New 
that “high in 


administration had told him that 


York, 
authorities’ 


retorted at 
the 
“we 
any injury 
national defence, to 
effec- 
ad- 


Once 


are in a position, without 


fo our navy or 


Britain immediate 
by furnishing 


mal destroyers,” 


give Great 


tive assistance her 


ditic 


Holland 
Berlin) 


Disorders In 
Amsterdam (Via 
official agency 
inquiring into disorders which 
Amsterdam within the 
days. From The Hague 
of the arrest of a 
merchant and several other 
for “a attitude 


The 
press reported police 
were 
occurred in 
last 

came 


few 
a report 

person provocative 

soldiers.” 


Stories Coming Out Of Germany Are 
Not All Hearsay 


Ludwig Lore, columnist in the) 
New York Post, says: I cannot 
vouch for all of these stories. They} 


were told to me by a teacher who 
has just returned from Germany! 
after several years of uninterrupted 
residence there. He is an American 
He has seen some of the things he 
tells. 


hearsay. 

I retell them here, because they 
show what the Germans are think- 
ing, and what they are saying to 


one another. The German people 
are far from content with things as 
they are. They are obedient. They 
have accepted the war, stoically, 
without enthusiasm, almost without 
hope. But they talk to those whom 
they can trust, and the stories they 
tell reflect the sentiments of the! 
population more accurately than all 
of Goebbels’ propaganda, 

When the German farmer needs 
help for the harvest he no longer 
hires it in the open market. He 
applies to the proper authorities and | 
on a given date reports at the local! 
railway station, The train arrives, | 
packed full of Polish women and 
girls, whom German. soldiers drive | 
out of the cars as if they were cat-! 


tle, and line up before the waiting | 
farmers. The latter inspect the| 
frightened, brutalized people and| 


make their choice. Often they are so 
weak from hunger and Priveicny 
that it takes days of rest and feed- 
ing to put them into condition! 
again. 

German newspapers contain little! 
real information regarding the war. 
Since there are no casualty lists, no- 
body knows what Hitler's Blitzkrieg 
has cost the nation in terms of life 
and suffering. 

But there are stories and rumors 
--the more persistent because they 
cannot be published and therefore 
are never officially denied. Every- 
body in Germany knows—or has) 
heard—that the German army left! 
100,000 dead in Poland. Everybody 
has heard the story of that advance, 


how the army moved so fast that 
there was no time to help the} 
wounded; that officers ordered their) 


soldiers to lay boards over dead and) 
wounded alike, over which the tanks 
moved forward, crushing living and) 
dead under their weight, while 
special sanitary corps brought up 
the rear spreading thick layers of 
chloride of lime over the bodies, 
They know that the German army 
has twice attempted an invasion of | 
Britain and that each was repulsed | 
by the R.A.F. with huge losses, They 


tell each other that these invasions 
cost from 50,000 to 70,000 lives and 
that the suffering was incredibly | 
severe, 


65,000 German 
attack on Nor- 


They know that 
soldiers died in the 


way, most of them by drowning in} 
the great sea battles which marked 
the first week of the invasion. | 

They whisper to one another that | 
British anti-aircraft fighting has 


been so effective that German pilots| 
are refusing to fly back into the in-| 


ferno from which they have been) 
fortunate enough to escape. There} 
is indisputable evidence, my inform-| 
ant says, that the German army is 
beginning to feel a growing short- 
age of skilled pilots, although air-| 
craft production is increasing. 

The average Nazi never hears! 
these stories, Those who tell them 
risk imprisonment and torture. Even| 
among their friends, they rarely ad-| 
mit that they believe them | 

But they spread, from house to| 
house, from village to village, from | 
city to city, and lose nothing in the} 
telling. And slowly there is grow-| 
in 1 the hearts of the German peo-| 
ple that cancer of disillusionment 
and unbelief which will finally un-| 
dermine the morale of that crushed | 
and unhappy people | 

ee | 
Sheep In Canada | 

In view of the improved market in 
Canada for mutton, lamb, and wool} 
it is likely, states the Current Re- | 
view of Agricultural Conditions, that 
there will be a further expansion in 
sheep raising during 1941. The price 
of wool, unwashed at Montreal, has 
shown little fluctuation during recent 
months and present indications are 
that prevailing prices will be main-| 
tained throughout 1941 

Elephant tusks grow from the up-| 
per jaw. They are elongated and 
specialized upper incisor teeth, grow- 


downward from 
of the eye-sockets, 


ing a point in front 


Some of the larger airplane manu-) 
facturing companies are now using! 
X-ray machines to test the me@al 
parts used in the construction of 
their planes. 


Firewood is for disposal from de-, 


molition sites and dumps in London, } 


-| his getaway. 


Most of them he knows from) 


| thing to do,” 


| gets. 
|do” in any emergency. 


Learning Cost Of War! Helped Their Countrymen 


|Prenet People Aldea Aviators To 


Escape To England 

Eve Curie brought back to this 
| country some stories of how French- 
men aided some of their aviators to 
escape to England. In one village in 
| Brittany, where an aviator had hid- 
den his plane, the villagers contri- 
buted all their rationed gasoline for 
But still that wasn’t 
sufficient to get him across the 
Channel. He therefore waited for a 
stormy day and took off, knowing 
that the wind velocity would speed 
him there. When, at last, he saw 
England beneath him he searched 
for a suitable landing, place and 
found one—a golf course—but there 
were too many people playing there. 
He found another place—a playing 
field. But it was mobbed with spec- 
tators and football players. “Only 
the English could do such mad 
things,” mused the pilot—and head- 
ed for some level ground, into which 
workers were driving long spikes to 
prevent landing. But he had no 
alternative, for the gas tank was 
| empty. “That’s a Frenchman,” the 
workers agreed. “Only a Frenchman 
would do such a mad thing.” 


Trained For Emergencies 


Boy Scouts Taught To Do What) 

Seems Most Sensible 

A German bomb that fell in one 
|of the suburbs of London, England, 
happened to break the gas main. 

A few minutes later a Boy Scout 
appeared on the scene and gave a 
good sniff. “Gas,” he said, 


In such circumstances, the major-| 


DEATH CAME TO 12 WHEN LUXURIOUS AIRLINER CRASHED 


| and a T.C.A, plane at Armstrong, Ont. 


Safety was within 400 yards in space and two seconds in time as Canada's worst air crash claimed 12 lives 


It was the worst disaster in Canadian aviation history. Above is shown 


| the type of Lockheed plane involved in the tragedy. One of the victims (left) was F. J. Freer, of Winnipeg, as- 


sistant treasurer of the Great-West Life Assurance Co., while second in command of the plane (centre), was First 


Officer C .E. Lloyd, Winnipeg, formerly of Ottawa. 


| University of Manitoba. 


(Right) is another Winnipeg victim, Prof. Robert McQueen, 


Are Being Well Fed 


ity of the people would have run for African Troops Get Glorified Hardtack 


help, but the Scout knew a better 
way. He dived into the crater made! 


by the bomb and with the clay made tive service. 


so plentifully available by the explo- | are part of their diet. 
| sion, 


plugged up the hole through | 
which the gas was escaping. 


When the members of the gas com-) war industry. 


pany made their appearance, 


And Orange Juice 
Envy South African soldiers on ac- 
Orange juice and rusks 


Manufacture of army rations is one 
| of the important features of Natal’s 
Army biscuits, rusks, 


they | orange juice concentrates, milk pow- | 


congratulatd the boy on his fine piece der, condensed milk and pork saus- | 


|of work, and asked what had made ages 


are among the commodities | 


him think of using clay to plug the | manufactured in this province. 


hole. 


The Boy Scout seemed to be very to be lyrical over. 
;much surprised at the question, and first great war's 


looked it. “It seemed the sensible 
he replied. 
That is the training a Boy Scout 


He sees “the sensible thing to 


Valuable Craft 


British Admiralty Says Corvettes 
Meet Urgent Requirements 

A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the} 
Admiralty, told the House of Com- 
the corvettes, many of which are 
made in Canada, have shown ability 
mons the Admiralty is sat’sfied that 
to meet “the urgent requirement for 
which they were designed.’’ These 
small craft are carrying out valuable 
anti-submarine and convoy service, | 
Mr. Alexander said in his written re- 
ply to a question. 


The new Howard DGA-125 trainer 


| 
cruises at 108 miles an hour and is| 
powered with a 125-horsepower en- 
gine. 


Benjamin Franklin attended school 


only two years of his life-time, and 


| that between the ages of 8 and 10, 


Even the army biscuit is something | 

It resembles the 
product in shape 
; and color only. Made from a recipe 
| prepared by expert dietitians, it in- 
cludes wheat meal and _ straightrun 
flour from South African farms, 
sugar, full milk powder, salt, bicarb- 
onate of soda and baking powder. 

The orange juice concentrates will | 
be particularly valuable in territories | 
where green vegetables are hard to} 
obtain. They are rich in vitamin C, | 
without which the soldier would run | 
the risk of scurvy. 


When Florida Scored 


California Had No Ready 
For Miami Grocer 
Feud of the resort season is that} 
between California and Cuba-Florida! 
axis, with both of them doing break- | 
neck business. Reminds of the anec- | 
dote of the California who stepped in- 
to a Miami grocery, picked up 
huge green winter squash and in- 
quired patronizingly: ‘Is this as big | 
@s your alligator pears grow here 2 
The grocer, noting the California | 
number plates on the outside, 
turned and said acidly: 


” 


that grape! 


Answer 


car 


/tion into the Dornier as 


Was Well Named 


English Gunner Called Trigger Has 
Been Awarded Military Medal 

Nineteen-year-old Stanley Martin 
(“Trigger’ to his mates), of Down- 
ham, Kent, wanted to be a Lewis gun- 
ner in a trawler. Instead he joined | 
an A.A. unit on the East Coast. He 
has just been awarded the Military 
Medal. 

A colleague of his writes to tell 
how it happened. He was on spot- 
ting duty when a Dornier came over 
about 75 feet up, machine-gunning | 
everything in sight. “Trigger” turn- 
ed to his officer and asked if he might | 
use a Lewis gun. Permission given, 
he dashed across to the Lewis gun! 
post and pumped a pan of ammuni- 
it roared 
across the gun sight at an angle too 
low for the A.A. guns. 

Guns on the Dornier ceased fire 
and the machine crashed on a river 
bank two miles away. The under- | 


| clusive 


Slave Labor 


Nazis Using War Prisoners On 
Industrial Production 

Germany is utilizing a foreign 
labor force estimated to. number 2,- 
000,000 war prisoners and civilians 
from occupied countries and is con- 
centrating her industrial production 
on airplanes and ships, reports to 
the Washington department of com- 
merce indicated. 

An earlier Unite@ Press Berlin 
despatch quoted authorized German 
quarters that’ 3,400,000 foreigners, 


including war prisoners, are now em-| 


ployed in Germany. Approximately 
half the 1,390,000 war prisoners plus 


| 1,400,000 civilians are employed in 
| agriculture, 


it was said, and some 
670,000 foreignérs are employed in 
factorise. The foreign laborers, ex- 
of war prisoners, these 
quarters said, were Poles, French- 


,;men, Danes, Italians and Slovaks. 


The emphasis in German industry, 


|carriage was presented to the A.A.|the department said in a weekly re- 


}mess.—London Daily Sketch. 


Played Safe 
Private Clyde Ross, at Camp Shel- 
by, Miss., fled into the woods when! 
an army convoy sped up to his com-| 


;pany and the commander shouted: 


“Bear to the right.” Found later, he 
explained: “I’m scared of bears.” 


Parts of the New England and} 
|New Jersey coastlines 
a/sinking. At the latter spot, it sinks| 
j}at the rate of two feet every hun- 


are 


dred years. 


view of international trade factors, 
has “tended to shift from munitions 
industries proper to airplane and 
shipbuilding industries.” 


A prying tool does not become a 
‘jimmy” until it is used for unlawful 
purposes, so @ burglar cannot buy a 


| “jimmy” in a hardware store. 


Cosmic rays can be detected one 


slowly | mile below the surface of the ocean. 


In some sections of northern 
Africa, date seeds, or stones, 
roasted and used as a substitute for 


Said an Irish physician of a patient | coffee. 


“if he lives till morning he may pull 


“Put down|through; but if he doesn’t, there is 


no hope for him,” 


Nearly half of the 92 known ele- 
ments are used in an automobile. 


BENGAZI FALLS AS BRITISH OFF FENSIVE CONTINUES 


IN HIGH GEAR 


Through Bardia on the double these Australians went when the Italian fort fell, and they have added more ea to the heaies forces under 


General Sir Archibald Wavell, who are taking the brunt of the British advance. 


The Italian retreat beyond Bengazi included many panic-stricken 


Italian settlers who emigrated to Libya in recent years. Terse communiques of the British command reveal little of the tremendous handicaps faced 
by the British successfully in the maintenance of communications over the desert, but capture of much war material as the British drive continues 


; has greatly aided the British forces. 


are | 


4 
The Maginot Line 
Is Practiealy Dismaatied And Every- 
Thing Beiag Used By Natis 

Berlin announces the dismantling 
of the Maginot Line. Some of its 
heavy guns have already been set up 
along the English Channel. Tight 
thousand of its coal stoves are now 
heating Berlin air-raid shelters, 
which are also equipped with its 
bunks and mattresses. Its supplies 
of food and ammunition (enough to 
last 250,000 men for a year) also 
proved useful. Tinned goods, oil, 
electric light bulbs, machinery, steel 
plate and copper cables have found 
uses in the Reich or have gone into 
smelting furnaces. Once the tank 
traps, entanglements and other de- 
fensive devices have been removed, 
the terrain in front of the line will 
be turned into fruit and vegetable 
farms. Like the Great Wall of China, 
its labyrinthine corridors and con- 
crete chambers will remain, anachon- 
isms to awe tourists and recall out- 
dated military conceptions.—Sault 
Daily Star. 


Early Surveyors 


Hazards Attending Early Western 
Activities Of The Craft 

Surveyors were reminded of haz- 
ards attending early western activi- 
ties of pioneers of their craft when 
H. E. Beresford, Manitoba director 
of surveys, recalled that a survey 
party was involved in the start of the 
first Riel rebellion. 

Mr. Beresford, addressing the an- 
nual meeting of the Canadian Insti- 
tute of surveying at Ottawa, said 
that Manitoba became a province in 
1870 and surveys were the first re- 
quisite in development. Lieut.-Col. J. 
S. Dennis drew up a _ system of 
townships divided into squares. Be- 
fore this was approved, a Major 
Webb, while running a survey line, 
was stopped by Louis Riel and a 
party of half-breeds, first incident in 
the rebellion. 

In 1871, Col. Dennis recommended 
a system of townships six miles 
square, containing 36 sections, thus 
initiating the dominion land system 
of surveying, said Mr. Beresford. 


Spitfire Fund 


Northern Trappers Decide To Collect 
Muskrat Pelts 

Northern trappers have decided to 
collect. muskrat pelts for a Spitfire 
airplane fund to be sent to Prime 
Minister Churchill from the Church- 
ill federal constituency. 

Post offices in the vast northern 
Manitoba area will be asked to for- 
ward the pelts to the War Savings 
Committee at The Pas to be dis- 
posed of through fur trading chan- 
nels, The money for the pelts will 
go to make up the Spitfire fund. 

At the nearby Summerberry game 
preserve some 400 trappers will be 
asked to drop their gift pelts into a 
fund -“kitty.” 

The muskrat 
opens in the spring. 


trapping season 


Famous Race Cancelled 


Grand National Steeplechase Will 
Not Be Run This Year 


For the first time since its incep- 


|tion 104 years ago, the Grand Na- 


tional Steeplechase will not be run 
this year, it was disclosed by Herbert 
Morrison, Home Secretary. Ques. 
tioned in the House of Commons by 
D. L. Lipson, Independent Conserva- 
tive member for Cheltenham, the 
Home Secretary said he had con- 
cluded that a substitute race at Chel- 
tenham was undesirable. The Grand 
National over the Aintree course is 
the world’s greatest test of stamina 
and jumping ability for horses. The 
course is four miles, 856 yards long. 
During the First Great War a sub- 
stitute race was run at Gatwick. 


Reason For Cheerfulness 


Jones was exceptionally cheerful. 
All day long he had been whistling 
and humming at his work, until at 
last Brown asked him what was the 
matter. 

“Well, you see,” explained Jones, 
“my wife has lost her diamond en- 
gagement ring.” 

“Well, what's 
cheerful about 
Brown, 

“I'm waiting for her to tell me. 
You see, I found it in my trousers 
pocket.” 


there to 
in that?” 


be so 
asked 


Alberta set a crude petroleum pro- 
duction record of more than 8,000,- 
000 barrels last year, compared with 
about 7,600,000 barrels in 1939, 

The Douglas 8A-5 has a top speed 
of 265 miles an hour, carries seven 
guns, and a large bomb load, 


Germany's Minister of Justice is 
dead. This is one post Hitler doesn’t 
2399 


worry about filling 


THE CHRONICLE, CARBON, ALTA. 


AGENT IN 
SABOTAGE 


BY CRAIG RICE 
(Copyright) 


CHAPTER VII. 


The Monday morning street car 
seemed a little less crowded than) 
usual. Nancy Thorne found a seat, 
in the corner and huddled there, star- 
ing out the window with unseeing 
eyes. 

Through the long afternoon and 
night one thought had run through 
her mind like the chorus of a song. 
She was alone now. There was no 
one she could trust. It had seemed 
to her as though impenetrable walls 
had sprung up between her and the 
people she loved most. 

She held back the threatened tears 
with a heroic effort. No use in mak- 
ing a spectacle of herself on the 
street car. Holding her chin high 
she took out her compact and pow- 
dered her nose and brushed back 
her coppery hair, with a convincing 
air of calm. 

The situation had to be faced, that 
was all. Tom was in this terrible 
thing, and so was Pat. No matter 
what her own feelings might be, she 
couldn't give them away. She'd) 
have to manage some excuse to| 
Hugo Blake for not doing his work. 
Maybe she could leave the Bristow 
plant and go away. A dozen pro- 
jects, all impractical, ran through 
her mind. 

A passenger getting off the street 
car left his folded newspaper in the! 
seat beside Nancy, and she picked 
it up and glanced at it aimlessly. 

“STUDENT AND INSTRUCTOR 

ESCAPE DEATH IN CRASH” 

The black headline was like a 
blow. Quickly she glanced through | 
the rest of the story. There were) 
few details given, only that no cause 
had been assigned to the accident, 
and that by some miracle the in- 
structor and student pilot had es- 
caped with minor injuries. 

Tom had_ said—‘“a lot- of 
plained accidents—” 

Pat had said—‘There’s nothing I 
wouldn’t do for money—” 

Tom had said 
to your neck-——” 

She closed her eyes and saw that 
tiny training ship as she had seen it! 
yesterday, circling so gracefully 
against the sky. She remembered 
groups of student pilots as she had 
geen them, their bronzed smiling 
faces looking into the sun. 

By the time the street car came to 
a clanging stop before the John 
Bristow Die-Casting Company, she 
knew she must keep to her resolve, | 
regardless of what it might do to! 
Pat or to Tom Cantwell. | 

She climbed wearily up the con- 
crete and iron stairs, punched her 
card on the time clock and placed 
it in the rack, and went to her 
desk. 

It was a little before 8, and the 
other office girls were congregated 
in small groups, laughing and chat- | 
ting of the week ends they had 
spent. One or two of them glanced 
at Nancy, nodded briefly, looked 
away again. Annie Burke, with her 
bright, gamin face, did come up for, 
@ cheery greeting, but then the 8) 
o'clock bell rang and work began. 

“Good morning, Miss Ellis.” 


| 


unex- 


—You're in this up 


She loked up. John Bristow, his 
round, ruddy face beaming, 
looking down at her. 


was appeared to avoid her. 


It seemed odd, | 


... for the Childrens 
School Lunehes 


warning her to leave her job, he had 


She went slowly down the stairs 


having him call her by her assumed to the lunchroom, now almost de- 


name, 


“Oh—good morning, Mr. Bristow.” 
“I haven’t seen you since you 
started work here. How do you like 


it?” 


She smiled at him. “TI like it fine.” 

“That’s good. I hope you get 
along splendidly.” 

He nodded to her, spoke to several 
of the other girls in the same 
friendly fashion, and went in into 
Grimshaw’'s office. For just an in- 
stant Nancy felt faintly hurt at his 
cool impersonality. In the next in- 
stant she realized that he was being 
tactful and in her heart she thanked 
him for it. She was unpopular 
enough now with the other girls 
without the added disadvantage of 
being a favorite of the boss. 

The office fairly hummed with 
work, with the added impetus of the 
big boss himself being on the prem- 
ises. Nancy’s fingers fairly. flew over 
the keyboard as she tried to keep 
up with the work Miss Fletcher piled 
on her desk, realizing as she did so 
that the added work was being 
given her in an attempt ‘to make it 
appear she was getting behind. 

“File those right away, Miss Ellis.” 

A frantic moment at the filing 
cabinets, 

“Get those copied iff a hurry— 
they want them downstairs.” 

A rush back to the typewriter. 

“Take those reports. into Mr. 
Grimshaw as soon as you have them 
done. He wants them right away.” 

She finished the last one in a 
breathless rush, gathered them to- 
gether and knocked at the door of 
Mr. Grimshaw’s office. Through the 
glass she saw him nod to her to 
come in, and opened the door, 

“.. , at least the attacks on our 
trucks have stopped,” John Bristow 
was saying as she entered. “That 


| takes a load off my mind.” 


“Just put those on the desk, Miss 
Ellis,’ the office manager said 
crisply. He went on talking to John 
Bristow. “There probably won't be 
any more attempts. This place is 
entirely too well protected.” 

Nancy stole a look at him as she 
laid the reports in a wire basket 
before him. He seemed to look ill, 
very ill. Frightened, too, 

“That’s what I think,” Bristow 
said. “Now about this other busi- 
ness———-” 

That was all she heard before the 
door closed behind her, 

“These orders have to be copied 
quickly, Miss Ellis. All of them 
have to be out before noon.” It was 
Madge Fletcher again. 

Nancy nodded and started back to 
work, her mind filled with what she 
had overheard. The attacks on the 
trucks had ceased, John Bristow 
said. He believed it was because 
the protection was so great. 

Hugo Blake had said something 
about new methods—nothing as 
crude as overturning a truck filled 
with valuable dies and patterns, 
That was why the attacks on the 
trucks had ceased, There was some 


|new, more frightful way. She wish- 


ed with all her heart that she could 
warn the friendly, white-haired man 
who believed his plant was safe. 
“Finished with those,” Miss Ellis?” 
She shook her head, “Almost. I'll 
be done in a few minutes.” 
“Well, finish them before you go 
to lunch, and leave them on my 


desk.” 
Five minutes after 12. Ten min- 
/utes, 15 minutes, 20 minutes past 


and finally the last one was done. 


| She made a quick check-up for pos- 


sible errors, found none, and laid 


\the orders in a neat pile on Madge 


Fletcher’s desk. Her head was fairly 
whirling, her fingers still tingled, 
Mr. Grimshaw, she noticed, had 
not left his office. She could see him 
through the glass door, still sitting 
at his desk, his head in his hands, 
She wondered if she ought to go in 
and ask if she might do anything 
for him. No, perhaps it would be 
better to leave him alone. Since that 
morning when he had seemed to be 


serted. Hugo Blake stood by the 
door; evidently he had been waiting 
for her to come down, 
“You're late.” 
She nodded. 
work to do.” 
Oh. Well, I have some extra work 
for you too.” He smiled down at 
her, his round face friendly, his 
sharp little eyes beaming at her 
from behind the thick-lensed glasses. 
Nancy managed to smile back. 


“TI had some extra 


“That's good. When?” 
“Tonight. Will you be home?” 
She nodded. 
“Good. I'll telephone you. I want 


to talk to you 
something very important for you 
to do.” He smiled once more and 
left her, going on up the stairs. 

She went on into the lunchroom 
and ordered a glass of milk, too ex- 
hausted with work and anxiety to 
think of food. She sat in the almost 
empty room sipping the milk slowly, 
trying to make some order out of 
the chaos of her thoughts. 


Hugo Blake had something im- 
portant for her to do. That might 
mean she could learn something im- 
portant, something she could take 
to John Bristow as evidence. That 
was the thing she must do, no mat- 
ter who it involved. With that ac- 
complished perhaps she could leave 
here, find a job in some new place. 
Not that it mattered very much to 
her what happened now. 

She went on back to the office 
wearily. At the door Tom Cantwell 
passed her, going in the direction of 
the machine shops. He barley nod- 
ded to her, his lean face looked an- 
gry, almost pale. She wondered if 
by any chance he could have learned 
what she planned to do, Well, that 
didn’t matter now either. 

It was a minute past 1 when she 
entered the big office already busy 
and noisy. The clatter of type- 
writers and rattle of papers seemed 


tonight—I have 


stepped in the door, was was con- 
scious of Madge Fletcher stopping 
what she was doing to look very 
slowly and deliberately at her, up at 
the clock, and back at her again. 


Not a word was said, but several, 


other pairs of eyes followed those 
of the head stenographer. 
Her cheeks burning, 
down at her desk, 
“Another set of reports, Miss El- 
lis. Hurry them, please—Mr, Grim- 


shaw wants them as soon as pos-| 


sible.” 
Nancy nodded. 
against time. 


Again fingers flew 
Not as rapidly now, 


however. The morning’s activity 
had drained her of strength. 
“You're finally finished? Take 


them to Mr. Grimshaw.” 

If she hadn't been late with the 
reports, Nancy thought a little re- 
sentfully, she wouldn't have been 
asked to deliver them to the office 
manager, 


She opened the door of the inner 
offic eand walked in. Mr. Grimshaw 
still sat at his desk, but now he had 
buried his face in his arms, 

She wondered what she ought to 
do. If he were asleep, he might re- 
sent being waked just to be told 
that the reports were finished. Or, 
if there was really an unusual hury 


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Nancy sat) 


| Hawes. 
to slacken for a moment as she} 


for the work, he might not like it if 
he weren't waked. 

“Mr. Grimshaw——” 

There was no response to her 
timid voice. She laid the pile of re- 
ports in the wire basket, hesitated 


a& moment and then tried again, 
louder. 

“Mr. Grimshaw——” 

Then she screamed. On Grim-| 


shaw’s head was a dark red stain, 
(To Be Continued) 


Comforts For Forces Abroad 


Special Parcel Post Rates Extended | 


To All H.M. Forces Serving 
Overseas 
Postmaster General William P. 


Mulock further facilities the sending 
of comforts to our Forces abroad. | 
Through arrangements with the Bri- 
tish Postal authorities, all His Ma- 
jesty's forces serving overseas will) 
now benefit from the special reduced 
rate of 12 cents a pound (weight 
limit 11 pounds) on parcels mailed to 
them from Canada, according to an 
announcement from the Postmaster 
General. 

The low .rate of 12 cents a pound 
(limit of weight 11 pounds) applies 
now on parcels for overseas mailed 
from Canada addressed to the fol- 
lowing: 

Members of British, Canadian, Do- 
minion or other Colonial troops serv- 
ing in the United Kingdom or in 
places outside the United Kingdom. 

Members of the official Auxiliary 
Services in the United Kingdom. 

Members of the Forces of General 
de Gaulle serving with the British 
Forces in the United Kingdom. 

Members of Belgian, Polish and 
other Allied Forces serving with the 
British Forces in the United King- 
dom. 

Members of the Canadian Army on 
duty in Iceland. 

Members of the Canadian Army on 
duty in the West Indies (Limit 20 
pounds). 

Personnel of H.M. ships and H.M.C. 
ships abroad. 

Note: The. rate on parcels to 
members of the Canadian Army on) 
duty in Newfoundland is 10 cents a 
pound (Limit 20 pounds). 

Nurses attached to units of the| 
above Forces are classed in the same} 
category as soldiers for postal pur- 
poses and are entitled to the respec- 
tive special parcel post rate. 


[ GEMS OF THOUGHT | 


CHARACTER 


When the late J. P. Morgan: was 
asked what he considered the best 
bank collateral, he replied, ‘“Char- 
acter.’”—-Ramsey MacDonald. | 


Character is the result of two. 
things: Mental attitude and the way 
we spend our time.—Elbert Hubbard. | 


A good character is, in all cases, | 
the fruit of personal exertion.—Joel 


As in the floral kingdom odors | 
emit characteristics of tree and 
flower, a perfume or a poison, so the 
human character comes forth a 
blessing or a bane upon individuals | 
and society.—Mary Baker Eddy. 


To be worth anything, character 


;must be capable of standing firm, 
upon its feet in the world of daily 
work, temptation, and trial; and 


able to bear the wear and tear of 
actual life.—Smiles. | 


Let us not say, Every man is the| 
architect of his own fortune; but let 
us say, Every man is the architect 
of his own character.—Boardman, | 


| 


All Have Contributed 


But Some Indian Princes And Chiefs 
Are Not Wealthy 

The London Evening News says: | 
Not all the Chiefs of States in In- 
dia are wealthy, nor even all the 
Maharajahs; yet by this time I think | 
every prince and princeling, great or | 
small, has contributed in some form 
to the Viceroy’s War Purpose Fund. 

I hear of a gift from the Chief of 
a Western India state who is’ known | 
to be very far from rich. He has| 
sent 180 rupees; he suggests that the | 


| 


Rs 100 will buy a rifle, complete with | 


bayonet, and that Rs 80 will pay for 
1,000 rounds of ammunition, 

He gave the rifle and bayonet, his| 
subjects the ammunition. 

It is a contrast to the gift of the 
Nizam of Hyderabad and his subjects, 
which now amounts to £290,000 for} 
the R.A.F. 


—_ 


The eight-hour working day was} 
inaugurated in Germasy by regula- 


tions passed in 1918 and 1919, 


Laboratories and their scientific 
control of oil-well drilling are mov- 
ing directly to the oil fields, 


Canada’s mineral output 
was $500,000,000. 
$137,000,000. 


in 1940 
In 1915 it was 
2399 


|gin said, pulp is mixed with water) 


| sheet-pulp 


Prizes His Freedom 


Son Of German Exile Escaped Being 
A Hitler Barbarian 

A Harvard sophomore who sald he 
once was close enough to Adolf nit. | 
ler to call him “Uncle Adolph,” de-; 
clared that he was joining the United | 
States Army to “help defend the way | 
of life that is directly opposed to the | 
ideologies of Hitler and his shirted | 
gangsters,” | 

He is Egon L. S. Hanfstaengl, son 
of the new exiled Dr. Ernest Hanf- 
staeng!, former Nazi press chief. He 
celebrated his twentieth birthday on 
leaving for Alabama, eventually to 
become a cadet in the Army air ser- 
vice, 

“If T hadn't been accepted by this 
country,” said young Hanfstaengl, 
who is a native American and a citi- 
zen. “I would have tried to get in 
the Royal Air Force. While I real- 
ize that this country’s measures are 
all preventive, I believe we will) 
eventually slide into the war in some | 
way, and I want to be ready.” 

The six-footer, who spent five 
years in the Hitler youth movement 
while his father was a confidant and | 
adviser of the Reichsfuehrer, said in| 
an interview he finally felt “purged 
of the ideas which were on the way 
to making me a Hitler barbarian— | 
and I feel swell.” | 

“It's wonderful,” he grinned, “to 
be-living in a country where you can 
sit on a park bench and read Heine! 
and other authors barred by Nazis. 

He said it would be ironic if he 
ever became an air pilot engaged 
against Germany because “when I 
was a youngster living in Germany | 
Marshal Goering congratulated me 
on my marksmanship and said I'd 
make a fine soldier.” 

“If I ever did,” he said, “I'd be a) 
good one to bomb Munich because I 
know the place so well. I'd bomb | 
everything but the art galleries, the 
churches and the breweries. No, on| 
second thought, I would bomb the) 
breweries, because if there's anything | 
to make the people of Munich revolt, | 
it would be to deprive them of their | 
daily liter of beer.” 


To Keep Britons Warm 


| 
Industrial Waste Product Is Being 


Made Into Blankets 


An industrial waste product is be- 
ing put to a new use in keeping | 
many.a Briton warm and dry during 
stretches in an air-raid shelter, In 
the last two months the Maple Leaf, 
Fund, Inc., Canadian-United States | 
relief organization in New York, has | 
sent close to 8,000 giant (90 by 72) 
inches) pure wool blankets to Eng- 
land. <A $1 contribution sends one 
blanket. The fund plans to send a} 
minimum of 50,000 blankets this | 
year. | 

How this is possible is explained by 
the organization’s president, Victor 
Goggin, a civil engineer. The cloth 
from which the blankets are made is | 
a waste product of the cardboard in- 
dustry and is contributed by about 
100 member firms of the United 
States National Paper Board Asso- 
ciation. 


In the making of cardboard, Gog-| 


and spread over a screen, through 
which water drains off. The soft, wet 
pulp sheets must then be picked up 
and run through rollers. Manufac- 
turers have found that the most suc- 
cessful material for picking up the 
is a 100 per cent. pure 
woolen material with a rough nap. 
Because the material must be sub- 
jected to great strains and immersed 
in water of all temperatures, wool 
that is used costs as much as $14 a 
pound and the cloth must be immacu- 


lately woven, Goggin said. | 


Scientists have discovered that by 
doubling the amount of chlorine 
added to drinking water the chlorine 
taste disappears and the water then 
tastes quite pure and fresh. 


The cash income from the sale of | 
Canadian farm products in 1940 is 
estimated at $714,700,000 compared 
with $702,800,000 in 1939. 


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They belong to the nicest crowd in 
town—you can see from their poised, 
gracious manners. 

Instead of plunging down the aisle 
with the girl following him, he 
courteously asks where she'd like to 
sit, then states her preference to the 
usher. And she follows the usher to 
the seats, while her beau follows her. 
On leaving the theatre, too, she'll go 
first up the aisle. 

To know such little points, to date 
and party without nervous moments 
of doubt and hesitation—what a lot 
it means to your poise and popularity. 
But easy to check up on etiquette. 

The next time a man takes you 
out, remember he's your host. Stop- 
ping at a restaurant, let him choose 
the tabel with the aid of the head 
waiter. And of course he'll ask 
what you'd like to have and give 
your order to the waiter. 

If your beau takes you motoring, 
up to you to suggest going in when 
you arirve home. For, again, your 
beau as host wouldn't seem to wish 
to get rid of his guest. 

Know the charming manners that 
make you a welcome member of any 
circle. Our 32-page booklet tells the 
correct thing for parties, dates, the 
movies, games; when visiting, enter- 
taining, motoring. Gives etiquette of 
introduction, invitations, telephoning. 

Send 15c in coins for your copy of 
“Etiquette: The Correct Thing To 
Do” to Home Service Dept., Winni- 
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The following booklets 
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112—"‘How To Make Slip Covers” 

127—"‘The New Way To a Youth- 
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155—"Glass Gardens and Novelty 
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161—"‘New Ideas in Making Cur- 
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190—Quick Course in Piano Play- 
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New Yorker’s Son Took Only Job 
Available In England 

Passers-by smile when they notice 
the insignia of the Women's Volun- 
teer Service on his shoulder, but it is 
no joke to Francis Blake, 28, New 
York stock broker's son 

When the war started, Blake, cous- 
in by marriage of Lord Templemore 
and Lord Hothfield, was determined 
to serve Britain. Because he was an 
alien, the civil defence, Red Cross and 
several other civilian units said ‘‘No.” 


|The W.V.S. accepted him, and each 
day Blake drives a truck through 
| the countryside carrying anything 


from bandages to babies. 


Mussolini, according to reports, is 
now unable to make a military move 
without Hitler's permission, And 
even then it is subject to veto by the 
Greeks and the British, 


The human eye 1s scarcely able to 
see some tiny insects at a distance 
A cubic foot of water is convertible | of a yard; certain birds can see them 
from as far away as a hundred yards, 


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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27 


“THE HOWARDS OF 


To Be Announced Later 


CHRIST CHURCH 


The removal of the hulls from oat horses and are not wasted, “Naw; the bloke wot lives here is a Ee Ae bd 
(ANGLICAN) chop for young pigs is reeommended Everyone rais'‘ng hogs would do well lawyer,” replied the other in disgust. 
by all competent authorities. Hulls to cmploy a sifter, Plans for a simple “Hard luck,” said the first, “Did you C RBON TRADING CO 
possess no feeding value and are use- | sifter illustrated below, will be mailed lose anything ?” t *é 
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REV. S. EVANS, Rector 


Editor and Publisher 


“T PLEDGE” 


The following editorial recently ap- 
peared in the Rocky Mountain House 
“Mountaineer”: } 

“LT pledge”’—what intriguing words! 

1 pledge is a mott) h rd to improve 
ipon in the curr nt War Savings cim- | 
vaign, It is so full of mean’ng that one | 
stops to think about it, one finds that | 
t covers everything, and is an appeal 
in itself, 

At a banquet one gives 9 toast or a 
ledge, It is an expression of good 
vill, What a banquet we can have 
vhen we've “licked Hitler.’ And we 
‘an have it all the sooner if we give 


Stamps NOW and Often and Regular- 
ly, We can not show our loyalty as 
nrivat» citizens ‘in eny b tter way than 
toasting the success of our boys on 
land end sea and in the air, than with 
War Savings Stamps. 

“T Pledge Myself’! Why not, If we 
don’t pledge ourselves to spend less 
and earn more and use our abilities 
‘s pawns, how can we expect others 
to protect us If we don’t carry our 
fair share of the load and encourage 
others to do the same, if we don’t buy 
War Savings Stamps and invest in 
War Toans, how can we expect to be 
considered an example of 9 good citi- 
zen puiling our weight with those in 
the front lines. 

Think of it! “T Pledre”—doesn’t it 
intritue you? Then nledge yourself to 
do all you can to win th's war, W'n by 
saving. Save by investing in Savings 
Stamps. Now and Rerularly, 

OOO 

Avoid useless talk, Some convorsa- 
tion isn’t worth a nickle—except to a| 
‘phone company. 


North-West Line Elevators Association 


Soil Mining 

At the Annual Conference of the 
Manitoba Agronomists an interesting 
and challenging paper was presented 
by M, J. Tinline and H. J. Siemens. 
Its title is “Changes and Readjust- 
ments in Manitoba Cropping Prac- 
tices,” but it has equal significance 
for residents of Saskatchewan and 
Alberta, The following is an abstract 
of the authors’ introductory state- 
ments: 

In view of the present wheat prob- 
lem, this is an opportune time to 
encourage seeding down grasses and 
legumes. 

Manitoba farmers have been grain 
mining their soil too long. Older 
countries have had to maintain a 
high percentage of their land in 
grasses and legumes in order to pro- 


. ( ledge, make our toast, express! tect their soils. Manitoba farmers 
faction. ae <6 dwill and Buy War i must follow this same policy or their 
re , rs °" soils will be ruined. Serious drifting 


over much of the province, sheet 
erosion and gullying of the undula- 
ting lands are only foretastes of more 
severe erosion yet to come. 

Here endeth the quotation. 

It is an interesting fact that, until 
quite recently, lectures and articles 
on crop rotations were considered to 
be of academic interest only. We be- 
lieved that our prairie province soils 
were so abundantly fertile that they 
would never wear out, Now, we know 


better. 
Vitamin B, 

Much publicity has recently been 
afforded vitamin B, as a stimulator 
of plant growth. Dr. E. J. Kraus, of 
the University of Chicago, in an ad- 
dress before a joint meeting of the 
American Society of Agronomy and 
the Soil Science Society of America, 
on December 5, stated that most of 
the publicity was “just plain bunk.” 


ri 

Among the strange things in this 
world are bald birbers, skinny cooks 
and lazy married men, 


If the race to the 
ends in a tie, you lose, 


aan | 
(Agricultural Extension Service) 


Until growing pigs reach the oge of | 


partment of Agriculture has prepared 
plans of a s'mple home made sifter 
which any farm r can make with vory | 
little cost or trouble, The sifter is re- 
commended by the Live Stock Branch 
of the Department of Agrienlture, 

On most farms the material needed 
to build this oat chopper ig available, 
but even if it is purchased, its cost 
will not exceed a couple of dollars. 


The pig, however, and especially a 
very young pig, needs a concentrated 


made to handle bulky feed such as 
is fed horses and cows, 
\ good ration for young pigs up to 


To this should be added skim milk, 
buttermilk or a protein supplem>nt. 

The ont chop sifter may be used to 
remove hulls from oat chop, and by so 
doing the farmer not only improves 
the feeding value of the chop, but he 
also removes the hulls which are use- 
less as feed and highly dangerous to 
the health of the young p‘gs, The hulls 
so removed may be fed to cattle and 


sion Service, Dept. of Agriculture, Ed- 
monton, 


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MMEMEERE: 


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TALE OF 


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And the friction keeps her warm. 


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Gillett-- Did you ever kiss a girl 
when she wasn’t looking? 
Terry—Not when she wasn’t good 
looking! 
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“Did yer get anything?” whispered 
the burglar on the ground as his pal 
emerged from the window. 


Music Teacher—Can you tell me the 
national air of Italy? 
Bright Boy—Garlic, 
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A clergyman visiting a hospital, 


came to a Scotsman, who asked him 


to read a psalm. “Which one world 


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REV. R. MILBRANDT, Pastor 


you like?” asked the clerryman, “The 
langest in the book,” was the reply 
So the clergyman read the longest 
psalm, “That’s guid,” said the Scots- 
man, “Wull ye read it again, sir, and 
wull ye come a wee bit closer?” “Cer- 
tainly,” said the clesgyman, and he 
read the psalm a second time, “Thank 
ye kindly, sir,” said the patient, “Ye 
ken ah’ve no had a drap for a fort- 
nicht and the verra smell’s 2 Godsend” 


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10 a.m.—Sunday School, pigs should be fed sifted oat chop until three months of age. 
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7 p.m.-—Bible Study Service, ” 


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